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How to copy files and NTFS permissions between servers. This is a really helpful tip and critical with NTFS permissions using robocopy. I needed to copy 5 gigs of data from one server to another and the permissions were very difficult to replicate. Here is a good way to do it using robocopy.
1. Grab a copy of the Windows 2003 resource kit and install
2. Copy robocopy.exe from the C:Program FilesWindows Resource KitsTools and paste it into the c: root of the server that you want to copy files to
3. Open up a command prompt, cd to get yourself to the root of C: drive and then type in robocopy
4. Wait for files and permissions to transfer…and you are done!
I was able to do this with many files and 5 gigs of data across servers on the same lan in about 12 minutes. This seems to be fast but the copying of permissions with the files makes this a perfect solution to that age old problem of moving data and permissions when moving application data or even desktop data for users.
Here is one example of how useful some of those free apps in the Windows 2003 resource kit are when admining Windows apps and servers. Robocopy has a lot of options and there is more information than this in the robocopy document that comes in the Windows 2003 resource kit.
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can you specify a source or destination directory, your step # 3 doesnt show any?
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I got a better idea:
http://www.ghisler.com – total commander – worth every penny.
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I like this tool, it automatically fixes ACLs if you migrate permissions that contain local groups or local users of a member server or migrate accounts cross domain. It can even migrate the user’s passwords.
http://www.sys-manage.com/PRODUCTS/CopyRight/tabid/64/Default.aspx
Phil
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Total Commander is to slow if you are doing +100 GB transfees in my opnion.
To bad Robocopy does not retain permissions if you are copying across domains, even in the same forests. At least I haven´t found out a way to do that yet.
regards
Frank
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Robocopy will do security, but you have to include the /E flag.
robocopy source destination /S /ZB /COPYALL /PURGE /R:5 /W:5 /V /IF *.jpg
Will copy just jpgs and won’t set the security
but with the /E flag added:
robocopy source destination /S /E /ZB /COPYALL /PURGE /R:5 /W:5 /V /IF *.jpg
will copy the files and include empty folders – however now you get empty subdirectories if like me you’ve filtering down to one file type
Robocopy V5.1.10.1027
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However you can delete the empty folders afterwards by using the RD command.
c:
cd\
cd temp
cd “empty test”
for /f “delims=” %%i in (‘dir /s /b /ad ^| sort /r’) do rd “%%i”
cd ..
RD attempts to remove ever directory in the folder
c:\temp\empty test
but RD fails if the folder isn’t empty, so it wil only ever delete empty directories, not the directories with one or more file in.
TEST before putting this into practice!!!
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/04/17/8399914.aspx
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