Migrating files on WS2003SP2 to Azure File Share
We have a legacy web server 2003 SP2 with 15GB files. Need to move these files/Folders 1:1 to an Azure File Share. Searched for days and got many misleading findings. AZCopy.exe is recommended, but does not run on 2003 server since it needs FW4.5. What is the way to do this?
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open the azure file share as a 'share' and use robocopy to copy the files
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I can only RDP into my old server (WS2003). No easy physical access since co-located. It won't install DropBox.
robocopy {Location} {Destination} /MIR /COPY:DAT /TEE /Z /log:c:{Location and Filename}.txt
You can delete the bolded if you can care less to carry over the file source date, attributes, time stamps to the destination when the files are being copied. And be careful with MIR - if there are files with the same filename in the destination, it will overwrite those files. Omit if this is a concern.
You can look here for the different options: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.computerhope.com/robocopy.htm&ved=0ahUKEwij4cTt36TSAhXBlVQKHRJrB4YQFggmMAI&usg=AFQjCNGtATVdXbBjrNnyriN1LyOfDfpXng&sig2=jtG-xp1ucfVbq2Whihb8zQ
You can delete the bolded if you can care less to carry over the file source date, attributes, time stamps to the destination when the files are being copied. And be careful with MIR - if there are files with the same filename in the destination, it will overwrite those files. Omit if this is a concern.
You can look here for the different options: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.computerhope.com/robocopy.htm&ved=0ahUKEwij4cTt36TSAhXBlVQKHRJrB4YQFggmMAI&usg=AFQjCNGtATVdXbBjrNnyriN1LyOfDfpXng&sig2=jtG-xp1ucfVbq2Whihb8zQ
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Lots of good ideas. I finally use a Azure server I already have and RDP into the old 2003 server to copy the directories into the Azure file share which is mounted on the Azure server. I did not find a solution which works on the 2003 R2 server to access Azure storage directly, since everything uses Framework 4,5 to connect to Azure storage. Server 2003 will not run FW4.5.