Dear Sirs,

is it possible to keep the drive mappings after logout so that a very
long copy process can work on copying files from a netware5.1 server to
a windows xp workstation.

Many Thanks.

Best Regards

Hans-G. Horter


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horter,

> is it possible to keep the drive mappings after logout so that a very
> long copy process can work on copying files from a netware5.1 server to
> a windows xp workstation.

No. when you logout the drive associations are removed.

H.

Hamish wrote:

> horter,
>
>> is it possible to keep the drive mappings after logout so that a very
>> long copy process can work on copying files from a netware5.1 server to
>> a windows xp workstation.
>
>
>
> No. when you logout the drive associations are removed.
>

Until 'xcopy' failed with "insufficient memory" errors on a large copy
job, I was unaware of a utility from the Win2k3 reskit called 'robocopy';
it is a great replacement for xcopy, has features to do incremental
and differential backups to block oriented media, and also can run as
a service. The copy job can be setup using UNC names for sources and
destinations so drive mappings aren't needed. Since it can run as a
service, perhaps it could work without a user logged in to the workstation
(haven't tried but it seems reasonable)?

Michael

Michael,

> Until 'xcopy' failed with "insufficient memory" errors on a large copy
> job, I was unaware of a utility from the Win2k3 reskit called 'robocopy';
> it is a great replacement for xcopy, has features to do incremental
> and differential backups to block oriented media, and also can run as
> a service.

XXCopy is also a good xcopy replacement.

> The copy job can be setup using UNC names for sources and
> destinations so drive mappings aren't needed. Since it can run as a
> service, perhaps it could work without a user logged in to the workstation
> (haven't tried but it seems reasonable)?

How reasonable & secure is it to have a service able to copy anything
from a server?

Even with the copy utility running as a service, there needs to be an
authenticated session to the server to be able to read files from it.

H.

Thank you for your hints.

Until now I tried it with a windows version of rsync and Deltacopy. It
also works with UNC-paths and as a service. But with UNC-path the copy
process failed because of paths or file names are too long. So I took
the drive mappings to shorten the paths. That worked with exceptions
better than the UNC-path first try. But now if we log out then the drive
mappings are gone and rsync cannot find the source paths.

Do you have some experience with your proposed software? Do they also
have the problems with paths or file names too long?

Of course I have also the feeling that its more secure when the
connections are cut after logout. But the software evaluating that big
amount of data works much faster when the data is on the local
harddisc.

Best Regards

Hans-G. Horter


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horter,

> Do you have some experience with your proposed software? Do they also
> have the problems with paths or file names too long?

I've used xxcopy and robocopy. Both probably will have problems with
overlong paths.
>
> Of course I have also the feeling that its more secure when the
> connections are cut after logout. But the software evaluating that big
> amount of data works much faster when the data is on the local
> harddisc.

What is it you're trying to do ?

H.

> What is it you're trying to do ?

In this environment we have three (are enough for that game but there
are more) machines. One of them produces a lot of measurement data. We
store the data for central backup purposes on the netware server (the
second machine). Producing the data and saving the data on the server is
more or less quickly. Evaluating the data is a very terribly slowly
process even if data is locally on the third machine.

cu

Hans-G.


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