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Hi,<br />
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I would start by first ask, do you want to keep your old folder structure? if yes, all you just need to do I is robocopy to do the copy.
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Hi,

I would start by first ask, do you want to keep your old folder structure? if yes, all you just need to do I is robocopy to do the copy.

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I planned on keeping most of the old structure. Could you provide more details on robocopy.
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I planned on keeping most of the old structure. Could you provide more details on robocopy.

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Is this what you are referring to?<br />
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<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145.aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145.aspx</a>
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Is this what you are referring to?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145.aspx [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145.aspx]

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I'll give it a try on Monday and get back to you with the results.
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I'll give it a try on Monday and get back to you with the results.

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Brilliant, enjoy the rest of the weekend
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Sorry for the late response. Thank you again, worked perfectly
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Sorry for the late response. Thank you again, worked perfectly

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I am replacing a Windows 2003 Server with a new server running Windows Server 2008R2. Can someone point me to a best practise article on how to approach the data move. Should I just create the old folder structure / Share and NTFS permission for all the data manually and just copy it over?<br />
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I guess i would also need to create a batch file to un-mount shares of the old server and mount shares to the new one. <br />
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Is there a more elegant solution for this? It's only 800GB of data but I still like to know how someone with 100 TB and thousands of shares would approach this.
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I am replacing a Windows 2003 Server with a new server running Windows Server 2008R2. Can someone point me to a best practise article on how to approach the data move. Should I just create the old folder structure / Share and NTFS permission for all the data manually and just copy it over?

I guess i would also need to create a batch file to un-mount shares of the old server and mount shares to the new one. 

Is there a more elegant solution for this? It's only 800GB of data but I still like to know how someone with 100 TB and thousands of shares would approach this.

File Server Update / Data move best practise

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