I would like to move my shared folders to another server and for the folders to retain there share. From what i understood i could do so by doing a complete backup using Veritas 9.1 and restoring them to another server? I did so but the share didn't get tranfered over? any ideas?
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You can use Robocopy for doing this. You can search for Robocopy on the Microsoft website.
The format would be
Robocopy \\server1\e$\subdir \\server2\e$\subdir /copyall
You can also use the File server migration tool
http://www.microsoft.com/w
Another great tool we used to migrate our data from one server to the other.
http://www.scriptlogic.com
You can download the demo which copies about 2000 files at a time.
File Shares, File permissions, etc.. are retained during the copy
There are a number of steps that need to be taken when doing this, and they are:
• Closing connections for Users Shared Folders
• Ensuring the destination partition is formatted as NTFS
• Enabling quotas on the destination server partition (if they were in use before)
• Exporting and importing quota settings (if applicable)
• Moving the Users Shared Folders to the destination server partition
• Sharing the Users folder on the destination partition
• Enabling file version retention on the destination partition (if you have Volume Snapshot Service running on the share already)
There is a paper that was written for doing this on a Small Business Server, but the steps are identical. See http://sbsurl.com/movedata
Also, if you are moving to a completely different server, the share will change from \\server1\users to \\server2\users. This can be mitigaged by using DFS (distributed file system) but even then you would still have to change the name of the root of the share at least this one time. It may be more effort than it's worth to do that part.
Jeff
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User Secure Copy by Script Logic
Worth every penny and can buy a license for the time you think it will take you to migrate all your data or for a much longer period.
Great pricing plan in my opinion since most people only migrate their file servers every once in a while.
you can also use this for backup capabilities
Roboycopy will work as well but Securecopy make life much easier.
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by: oBdAPosted on 2006-08-29 at 13:18:38ID: 17414824
The shares can be moved over with the help of this article (assuming you have the exact same drive name and folder structure):
Saving and restoring existing Windows shares
http://support.microsoft.c