OS/DB Migration Export: Why Local Disk Beats NFS for Reliability
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OS/DB Migration Export: Why Local Disk Beats NFS for Reliability
David Thompson breaks down what you need to know
If your migration export is writing to NFS, you’ve added a network variable that can silently corrupt your timeline. After two decades of SAP transformations, I’ve learned that the most expensive migration failures are often the ones that could have been avoided with a simple storage decision.
The Real Story
The SAP Community discussion highlights a classic infrastructure debate: export to NFS or local disk? The original poster asks whether to export directly to NFS or to local disk and then secure copy. The most valuable insight from experienced practitioners is blunt: export local, copy after.
Why? Because large sustained write workloads over NFS are prone to timeouts, retransmits, and silent stalls. SAP’s migration tools — R3load, SWPM, and related utilities — don’t always handle network hiccups gracefully. A single NFS blip can cause an export job to fail after hours of runtime. When you’re already managing Unicode conversion, table splitting, and package sequencing, removing the network from the export path fundamentally reduces troubleshooting variables.
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References
- OSDB migration; export to NFS or to local disk + s…- SAP AI Core Documentation
- SAP Community Hub