edutech4schools Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 I need to move a ton of folders from one server to another server with as little after work as poss. I have found these 2 commands but wanted you advice first. Create empty shared folders on the new machine. Turn off inheritance of permissions to contained folders and files. Use ROBOCOPY with the option /COPY:DATSO to move all folders and files from the old shares to the new shares, preserving: Data content File Attributes Timestamps NTFS ACLs Ownership easyest to use is robocopy: robocopy /mir /sec "\\oldserver\d$" "\\newserver\d$" This way security gets copied to The first option looks like I would need to create all the shares first which I don't really want to do.
cpjitservices Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 Robocopy will do the trick but you'll need a folder accessible remotely on the other server.
FN-GM Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 Have you looked at this - Download: File Server Migration Toolkit - Microsoft Download Center - Download Details Moves everything nice and easy works a treat and all in a gui.
edutech4schools Posted February 21, 2012 Author Posted February 21, 2012 @FN-GM Just read the migration toolkit whitepaper. Looks very ott or is it just MS making things look more complicated than they are? @cpjitservices What switches would you recommend if I use Robocopy? Cheers
Firefox Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 The switches are completely upto you this site provides good detail Robocopy As an example we use this one quite often "Robocopy "\\sourceservername\sourcesharename" "\\destinationservername\destinationsharename" /E /Z /XD (any exluded folders) /SEC /XO /R:0 /W:0 /TEE /LOG+:"copy.log"
FN-GM Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 Just read the migration toolkit whitepaper. Looks very ott or is it just MS making things look more complicated than they are? They have gone of the top with the whitepaper. Trust me its easy
edutech4schools Posted February 22, 2012 Author Posted February 22, 2012 Does the migration toolkit work on domain servers, something in the white paper mentions DFS root server cannot be a domain controller.
FN-GM Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 Does the migration toolkit work on domain servers, something in the white paper mentions DFS root server cannot be a domain controller. Yep it will work
edutech4schools Posted February 22, 2012 Author Posted February 22, 2012 Am I right in thinking you run the toolkit from the destination server rather than the server I will copy the data from?
cpjitservices Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 Off hand I cant remember as I rarely have to touch the program.... I'll have a look on the server tomorrow
edutech4schools Posted February 26, 2012 Author Posted February 26, 2012 Just tried to use Robocopy but got a 'the filename, directory name or syntax is incorrect using the following: "Robocopy "\\server1\Multimedia$" "\\server2\Multimedia$" /E /Z /SEC /R:2 /W:30 /TEE /LOG+:"copy.log" Cant be the file or folder name so must be a syntax issue. I also assume it does not matter which server I am running this from as long as the first server/share is the source.
FN-GM Posted February 26, 2012 Posted February 26, 2012 Try this Robocopy "\\server1\Multimedia$" "\\server2\Multimedia$" /E /Z /SEC /R:2 /W:30 /TEE /LOG+:c:\copy.log What OS are you running? If its Server 2003 you will need this installing - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=15326
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