Moving share dir 1

[helsknight]

I'm moving a large 100+ gig share from on hard drive to another. I need the share to retain all share/security/file. I tried xcopy and that didn't go so well because some files have problems moving, etc. What's the best way to do this. I need a tool to move all this and report which file fail and so forth. Any help would be appreciated.

Hels

 

[pgaliardo]

You can try Robocopy from the Windows Server Resource kit. However, last time I had to do something like this, I found the most fool proof way to do this was to back up the share using whatever backup program you use and then doing a retore.

 

[helsknight]

Good point pgaliardo. I can do a backup and just restore to the new hd. genius!!! Ok before I get overly excited, any potential flaws with this method?

 

[pgaliardo]

I didn't run into any. Worked better than xcopy and robocopy for me because even robocopy was giving me access denied on sensitive accounting folders which I had no access to and I did not want to take ownership of them. Just hope you have sufficient backup media (tape or disk) to back up 100+ GB to.

 

[drew1701d]

Also try the Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit, helped me consolidate a number of shares to one system.

"I'm certifiable, not certified. It just means my answers are from experience...not a book

 

[helsknight]

Thanks pgliardo, I do a daily full backup on lto3 with backup exec. I do have MSSQL databases on the shares. Will the backup restore those to it's original state also or should i skip those and do a detach, copy, attach?

Drew I'll look into the file server mig toolkit.

 

[pgaliardo]

SQL is another animal and you'd probably be better asking that in a SQL forum. In a nutshell, I would do the regular file share restores first. Then do SQL as a seperate activity. Do you back them up using the Symantec SQL Agent?

 

[helsknight]

Yes I use the SQL agent. You've been great... thanks for your help!

 

[pgaliardo]

Glad to help. Let me know what you decided on the SQL databases and how it went.