Copy shares from 1 server to another?

[Uplift]

I'm trying to find an easy to way to copy all our folders and shares from one server to another.

 

The old server is windows 2000 the new server is windows 2008

 

I've been looking at robo copy but i don't think that copies shares? although i've been told it does.

 

At the moment i'm just on the new server and dragging files across from \\server\E$ but here is around 80GB of data and most of it is small images or text documents so it takes hours just to populate a list when doing it this way and it's copying between 500-900KB/s

 

Surely there is a quicker way?

 

thanks

[gl3nnym]

I have used ViceVersa in the past to transfer files and folders between server while retaining NTFS permissions. We did buy it but they have a 30 day free trial.

[Uplift]

I'll check it out (after half term ) many thanks.

[nicholab]

I had all user going to a hidden share and then redirected them to a folder with in that share.

[Guest TheLibrarian]

How many shares would you have to recreate?

If you have a lot of similar shares (some places uses one share per home directory), this could be scripted easily.

 

Robocopy will not recreate shares.

 

IIRC there was a command line program called permcopy that would allow you to copy permissions to other shares an NT4 reskit tool maybe. I'm fairly sure you had to create the shares manually though.

[SYNACK]

This could help Download details: File Server Migration Toolkit should do most of it automaticly.

[Uplift]

How many shares would you have to recreate?

If you have a lot of similar shares (some places uses one share per home directory), this could be scripted easily.

 

Robocopy will not recreate shares.

 

IIRC there was a command line program called permcopy that would allow you to copy permissions to other shares an NT4 reskit tool maybe. I'm fairly sure you had to create the shares manually though.

 

between 10-20 so it wouldnt be too hard to do it manually. We have around 400 user accounts but i don't need to share their home directories i dont think?

 

This could help Download details: File Server Migration Toolkit should do most of it automaticly.

 

I'll give it a go, thanks

[MYK-IT]

Last time I had to transfer alot of files / folders / shares from one server to another whilst retaining permissions etc i used Secure Copy.

 

To be honest, not sure how much it costs nowadays etc.

[glennda]

I tend to use ntbackup then restre it to the new server, normally takes a couple of hours when i do it for around 60gb

[bio]

I use Migrate Data easily and safely with Secure Copy - ScriptLogic great program..

 

bio..

[Uplift]

This could help Download details: File Server Migration Toolkit should do most of it automaticly.

 

This seems to be doing the trick here, the wizard is easy enough to follow. thanks for the suggestion.

[danrhodes]

You can use RmtShare to recreate the shared eaily - Rmtshare - File and Printer shares

[Uplift]

The above tool is working away, but extremely slowly, like 1GB/25mins

[danrhodes]

Which tool, cant be rmtshare as it completes almost instalntly normally!

[Uplift]

Microsoft File Server Migration Wizard... judging by it's current speed i'd estimate this to take over 24 hours.

[Brpilot99]

There's a registry key that contains all of the share details ... I cant remember which one but will check tommorrow if you want ....... You simply use regedit to navigate to the shares key .. export it and import it into the new O/S ... This worked for me 2003 old server hardware to 2003 new server hardware ..... I setup the drives in exactly the same way as the old server. I had lots of shares to reproduce !! ... Used Robocopy to copy the data and user permissions, system state from ntbackup for users and gpo's etc ....