I am attempting to migrate a fairly large file structure from a Windows Server 2003 DC to a new Windows Server 2008 DC. I have tried to use both Robocopy and Richcopy with the same result: The files copy over but the NTFS permissions do not. Specifically in Robocopy I get the error:
New File 38400 file1.doc
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2009/11/04 14:52:10 ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying NTFS Security to Destination File \\server1\data\Operations\
Access is denied.
I am using the original default domain administrator account which is a member of the Administrators Group which has full control and is the owner of all directories and files on the D:\ drive of both servers.
Any help would be appreciated!
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thanks for your answers...
DrUltima, You are correct that server1 is the source server in the error message provided. I did find that the domain/adminstrators group did not have full control over the target share, when I corrected this the error 5 went away but the NTFS permissions still aren't copying over.
oBdA, I have been using the command prompt with elevated priviledges with no success. I also tried using thd datsou switch and still the same results.
I'm going to give the Windows File Server Migration Toolkit at try. I ran a couple of small tests and it appears to work using these instructions: http://windowsitpro.com/ar
Robocopy to Windows 2008R2 will copy permissions if you use the Windows 2003 resource kit version of Robocopy and run it on a Windows 2003 server. If migrating data from Windows 2008 to Windows 2008R2 run Robocopy from a Windows 2003 server and map required drives. This will then copy files and NTFS permisions.
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by: DrUltimaPosted on 2009-11-05 at 13:37:39ID: 25754319
How do you have both share and NTFS permissions set up on your destination server's share? Also, is it safe to assume, in your error message above, that "Server1" is your source server? If so, does the Domain Administrator have permissions to both the NTFS security as well as the Windows Sharing security? In a Windows world, if sharing security is set up on the folder, it can override NTFS security (and vice versa) because lowest permissions win.