Will that utility also work on access denied problems that are not related to the files being open?
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Browse All TopicsHello all. I was trying to migrate data from our ailing Windows 2003 File/Print to our new Windows 2003 File/Print VM and ran in to some serious problems. When I use Robocopy to migrate the data I had tons of files come back as access denied. It looks like it could take for ever to fix these problems. We are experiencing hardware and OS problems with the old box and I need to get this data migrated ASAP.
Is there any way to get around the access denied problems with Robocopy? Is there any other utility that will migrate the data, keep the existing file permissions, and get around the access denied problems?
Any help is very much appreciated.
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Go to the root of the drive and ake ownership of it. Then propogate it down through the rest of the drive. Then just to be sure you can go to the security tab and make sure the domain admins have full control. You could also force that to propogate downward as well. That is the quickest way to give your account full control.
The access denied files are not in use. When I look at the properties as the administrator the security stuff is grayed out. All I can do is take ownership.
What about this idea. I'm not sure if this will work, but what is I performed full backup on the old server using HP Data Protector and then did a restore on the new VM. Would that do the same thing I am trying to accomplish with robocopy? (Copy over the files with permsiions and folder structure in tact)
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by: KCTSPosted on 2008-04-22 at 08:14:08ID: 21411920
Robocopy will not copy open files - if this is the problem then the paid-for version of Syncback will http://www.2brightsparks.c om/syncbac k/syncback -hub.html