share migration tool

[Uraken]

Hi all i need to migrate some sahres from one server to another and have the same share and ntfs permissions, can it be done if so is there a tool? (which is nice and easy to use) i thought i came across a microsoft one that did it but can't find it now.

 

cheers as always in advance

[plexer]

Does ntbackup preserve this information?

 

Ben

[bossman]

Robocopy it now comes with a Gui interface.

haven't got the URL at the mo but just google for robocopy ok

[Oops_my_bad]

There's always XCOPY which will do this

[Heebeejeebee]

Xcopy doesn't keep permissions AFIK Robocopy does - and works well.

 

GUI Version Here

 

2003 Resource Kit which contains Robocopy. Vista has it as standard.

 

HBJB

[Oops_my_bad]

xcopy /o - copy attributes and ACL, but for an easier life then use robocopy

[Heebeejeebee]

xcopy /o - copy attributes and ACL, but for an easier life then use robocopy

 

So it does :oops:

 

Never noticed that before.

 

HBJB

[DMcCoy]

There is a microsoft utility to copy the share permissions too but I can't remember what its called, I have used it in the past.

[DMcCoy]

Permcopy.exe

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

[spc-rocket]

Hi,

 

I'm watching this thread ith interest because we have got to migrate data from local disks to SAN and need to keep the shares, permissions and also the files.

 

The SAN will deliver basic disks to servers but what i need to do is to copy the files from the current drives to these basic drives that we will be using from now on. My plan is to :

 

1) Restore the data using veritas backup to these basic disks (SAN)

 

2)Manually create the approprite shares

 

3) Use permcopy to copy the share permissions

 

4) Change old drive letters to different letters

 

5) Rename the new (SAN) drives to the correct drive letter

 

Any thoughts as to what may go wrong??

 

Plan B:

 

1) Copy data using robocopy from old drives to new ones

 

2) manually create the appropriate shares

 

3) Use permcopy to copy the share permissions

 

4) Change old drive letters to different letters

 

5) Rename the new (SAN) drives to the correct drive letter

 

 

any thought, suggestions welcome.

 

Ash.