This example is going to go over a somewhat simplistic migration. First, I plan to migrate all of the contents of NW6-OLD/vol1 to nw6/vol1 as they are. This action is as simple as dragging NW6-OLD_VOL1 on top of NW6-NEW_VOL1 and dropping it, as shown in Figure D.
Figure D
Dragging and dropping a volume object is all there is to migrating contents.
When you drag a volume object on top of another, a window pops up with two options. The first option lets you simply migrate the volume object to the new volume; the second option allows you to migrate the volume into a subdirectory on the new volume with a name matching the original volume label. For this example, I'll migrate the volume rather than put the contents into a subdirectory. Since I plan to decommission NW6-OLD when I'm finished, I want to be able to simply point users to a new server name rather than deal with a new directory structure. Figure E shows the results of this action.
Figure E
You can see that the old volume shows up under the new one.
As you can see in Figure E, the contents of the old VOL1 show up under the new VOL1. If you're working on a particularly complex migration and have forgotten where something came from or can't find where it went, right-click the volume and choose Where Did It Come From? or Where Did It Go? If you make a mistake, you can easily fix it by right-clicking the volume or directory in question and choosing Back Out Dropped Object from the shortcut menu. Understand that this process doesn't actually perform the migration. With these steps, you're basically creating a script of actions that will be taken when you choose to actually run it. This is great because it gives you a much better opportunity to see what the actual final results will be rather than using trial and error. This is all that I want to do in this example, so it's time to run it and see what happens. Before you run your project, you need to verify it by choosing Project | Verify Project. When you choose this option, a list of objects that were dragged and dropped will come up. Since I'm only performing a simple example, only one object -- VOL1 -- comes up. (See Figure F.)
Figure F
Here is the list of dropped objects.
