NickFerrar
MIS
Has anyone else had problems with doing an ARCserve copy in v9?
I've done many data migrations using AS v6.61 and v2000 and all worked flawlessly with data being copied as expected and permissions retained.
Over the weekend just gone I was migrating data to a new server, I selected the source root folder and made sure the retain permissions, create empty folders and create base directories options were ticked. However the job stripped the source base directory and as the the two sub-folders were inheriting permissions they were all gone.
I realised this shortly into the copy so cancelled it and recreated the copy job but selected the create entire path from root option and again is stripped the base folder - I figured perhaps it does ssomething strange and would add the missing source folder at the end so left the job run.
Of course it didn't so I had to manually create the base directory, drag and drop the two sub-folders into it and re-permission everything.
A couple of colleagues have reported in ARCserve v9 copies some data is missed (in one case 2GB of data in a 4GB copy job was missed although ARCserve didn't report any errors).
I'll run some more tests but I hope the ARCserve v9 copy isn't buggy as it needs to be absolutely reliable to be useful in situations such as data migrations.
I've done many data migrations using AS v6.61 and v2000 and all worked flawlessly with data being copied as expected and permissions retained.
Over the weekend just gone I was migrating data to a new server, I selected the source root folder and made sure the retain permissions, create empty folders and create base directories options were ticked. However the job stripped the source base directory and as the the two sub-folders were inheriting permissions they were all gone.
I realised this shortly into the copy so cancelled it and recreated the copy job but selected the create entire path from root option and again is stripped the base folder - I figured perhaps it does ssomething strange and would add the missing source folder at the end so left the job run.
Of course it didn't so I had to manually create the base directory, drag and drop the two sub-folders into it and re-permission everything.
A couple of colleagues have reported in ARCserve v9 copies some data is missed (in one case 2GB of data in a 4GB copy job was missed although ARCserve didn't report any errors).
I'll run some more tests but I hope the ARCserve v9 copy isn't buggy as it needs to be absolutely reliable to be useful in situations such as data migrations.