Copying file from one network share to another
Hello EE,
I am about to start pulling my hair out over this. I have spent most of the day trying to find a away to copy several hundred GB of data from one drive to another on my file server without blowing away all the permissions and share settings. I have been toying with XCOPY and ROBOCOPY all day and have been unsuccessful. Once I think I have it working correctly, I am unable to duplicate the results. I have read through numerous posts here and followed many of the links already provide and to now avail. Does anyone know a way to accomplish this? I realize that preserving the share names many not be possible but I am for more concerned with the the countless various NTFS permissions that are in place throughout the directory tree. here are a few of the commands I have been running through.
robocopy \\server\share$\path \\server\share$\path /COPYALL /E /V /LOG:C:\ROBOCOPY.TXT
Additionally, I want to send the output to a text file to view all skipped and failed files.
There has got to a be a working script out there somewhere to accomplish this task.
Thanks,
CityofKerrville
I am about to start pulling my hair out over this. I have spent most of the day trying to find a away to copy several hundred GB of data from one drive to another on my file server without blowing away all the permissions and share settings. I have been toying with XCOPY and ROBOCOPY all day and have been unsuccessful. Once I think I have it working correctly, I am unable to duplicate the results. I have read through numerous posts here and followed many of the links already provide and to now avail. Does anyone know a way to accomplish this? I realize that preserving the share names many not be possible but I am for more concerned with the the countless various NTFS permissions that are in place throughout the directory tree. here are a few of the commands I have been running through.
robocopy \\server\share$\path \\server\share$\path /COPYALL /E /V /LOG:C:\ROBOCOPY.TXT
Additionally, I want to send the output to a text file to view all skipped and failed files.
There has got to a be a working script out there somewhere to accomplish this task.
Thanks,
CityofKerrville
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It is actually all on the same server but on different drives.
1 iSCSI SAN drive (Source)
1 Local drive (Destination)
1 iSCSI SAN drive (Source)
1 Local drive (Destination)
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Hm, why are you using UNC names, try using paths and drive letters instead.
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I guess I completely neglected to try and run the command locally. I had been doing it remotely and may have a working robocopy string that needs to be tested a little more.
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This was exactly what I needed. I even found this
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.11.utilityspotlight.aspx
Made it a snap. I copied all 64gb over night and was able to go back through the failure list and cleanup this morning. Thanks for the help.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.11.utilityspotlight.aspx
Made it a snap. I copied all 64gb over night and was able to go back through the failure list and cleanup this morning. Thanks for the help.
Unless both of your servers are members of the same domain, different security ID-s will exists on each server. It's impossible to copy with permissions from one site to the other in such case. Or more precisely, the permissions on the other side would be useless.