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So we have contacted you, and you are reading this.
So we have contacted you, and we have agreed on what to move where. Here's what will happen now.


Your account is so big, the data doesn't fit in your quota on the new server. How to proceed?
1. Once you've told us what to move and where to move it, our servers will start copying data over.


1. Decide what to move elsewhere.
But even when that is done, you won't be moved unless you log off from all LWPs.
For your (and our) convenience, we have created the file $HOME/migration/du. It lists the sizes of your subdirectories.
We have also created $HOME/migration/proposed. It looks like this:


79828 /research
2. So at some point in time, you log off entirely, from all LWPs, when you leave from work in the evening.
32987 /rawdata
------ cut here - dirs below add up to less than 49000MB -------
9159 /edu
7428 /MyBackups
4113 /.thunderbird
3228 /educonf18


That's just a suggestion. Please feel free to select different directories than we did. But do tell us what to move.
3. The next morning (bar some malfunction) when you log in, your home directory is now on another server. Moreover, the directories marked for /project are no longer where they were. They are now in /project/whatever_name_we_agreed_on.


2. Decide where to move it. Please see [[Project_Directories]].


3. Once you've told us what to move and where to move it, our servers will start copying data over.
Please note that ls /project will not show anything. Only when you actually access a directory under /project will it be mounted and shown.
4. Once the data is copied, we mark your account for migration.
5. At a moment when you are logged off (from all LWPs, not just your own), your account will be migrated.
 
6. The next time you log in, your home directory will not contain the project directories any more. They will be under /project/whatever_name_we_agreed_on.
 
Please not that ls /project will not show anything. Only when you actually access a directory under /project will it be mounted and shown.
 
When you are migrated, not only will your home directory server be on another server, some data will now be under /project

Revision as of 13:10, 19 June 2018

So we have contacted you, and we have agreed on what to move where. Here's what will happen now.

1. Once you've told us what to move and where to move it, our servers will start copying data over.

But even when that is done, you won't be moved unless you log off from all LWPs.

2. So at some point in time, you log off entirely, from all LWPs, when you leave from work in the evening.

3. The next morning (bar some malfunction) when you log in, your home directory is now on another server. Moreover, the directories marked for /project are no longer where they were. They are now in /project/whatever_name_we_agreed_on.


Please note that ls /project will not show anything. Only when you actually access a directory under /project will it be mounted and shown.