Copy 25GB

[Deak]

Hello I need to copy 25GB of images from one server (2003 Server) on my network to another server (server 2000)hopefully maintaining permissions & rights to them. I have a migration tool called FSMigrate.msi which I used once a very long time ago & can not remember the details on how to answer what I want to do. The folder is called images & its on a share on server olddb (hostname) the new server is Db290 (hostname). Does anyone have some ideas on what I need to do to use this utility or do you have another utility that will help me out. I was going to drag & drop however I am wanting something that would pick up where it left off if something would happen while copying the images as well as keep permissions & rights. Any thoughts or ideas?

 

[Deak]

Also have sub folders to be concerned with as well.

 

[itsp1965]

never heard of fsmigrate but you can easily accomplish what you want to do here using ROBOCOPY resource kit tool

 

[cpjust]

Couldn't you just use XCOPY?

Something like this:

XCOPY /E /C /H /K /O /X /Y source dest

Type HELP XCOPY to see what all those parameters mean.

 

[PScottC]

Robocopy is a better choice. It will copy the SACLs & DACLs when used with the correct switches.

robocopy "\\srv\share\folder" "\\dest\share\folder" /np /e /v /r:1 /w:1 /copyall >>copylog.txt

/np = No progress indicator (helps when sending output to log)
/e = copy all sub-folders including empties
/v = verbose
/r:1 = retry once
/w:1 = wait 1 second between retries
/copyall = copy ACLs and attributes

You can then check the copylog.txt file to make sure that all the files copied correctly.

PSC

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[58sniper]

I'll second using robocopy. I've moved terabytes using that.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Contributing author Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference

 

[biglebowski]

I use xxcopy pretty much the same as robocopy but has a few more features. Currently using it for a cust that has 3million wav files and 15million folders (complex folder structure). Across the network is cuurently shifting about 8GB an hour

XXCOPY source destination /S /K

/s include subfolders
/k keep attributes

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[Deak]

Thanks everyone. Robo copy appears to have done the trick for me. I never lost connection so I am just not sure how it would have restarted would it pick back up from where it stopped. But Thanks everyone for the suggestions.