![]() ![]() I Can’t Copy Profiles / I get Permissions Errors? Migrating – Folders and Share Permissions Yes, if you take a look at the following article, (I wrote a while ago,) you can see me doing just that, after a file copy. If you want to copy Share permissions then use the smigdeploy tools from the link I posted above.Ĭan I Copy the Share Permissions Afterwards? That’s correct, I never said it would, it copies NTFS permissions, ownership and ACL information. This is incorrect it will only remove files from the destination that no longer exist in the source. People mistakenly think that it will remove any files from the source that do not exist in the destination. Why? Because in the documentation it says it removes or ‘purges’ files. /MIR This is the ‘mirror directory’ switch, and people are scared of it.Robocopy \\ OLDSERVER\ d$\ FOLDER D:\FOLDER /e /zb /copy:DATSOU /MIR /r:3 /w:3 /log:c:\ROBOCOPY-Logs\Last-Copy\ FOLDER.log /V /NP Replace the values in red below, to suit you environment ![]() On the root of the destination servers C: drive create a folder called ROBOCOPY-Logs, and within this folder create another folder called Last-Copy, (you will see why later). Just in case things go wrong, I’m going to generate a log of whats going on, so I can see any errors or files skipped when I’ve finished. Tip: Unless you know the network well, always assume there’s some shares you don’t know about, run the fsmgmt.msc tool and expand ‘shares’. So in a two step procedure, you can do an initial file copy during working hours, then copy the differences out of hours, and repoint people to the new shares. Why Robocopy? Well the advantage to Robocopy, is you can use it to only copy new files or files that have changed. Thats great, but I find sometimes it’s a little ‘sluggish’ when copying data, and sometimes it’s better to just go ‘old school’ and use Robocopy. Windows Server – Migrating Files / Folders / Shares / User Profiles ![]() This process is repeated for each subsequent Incremental that is run.I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve heard ‘We can’t have any downtime’, which is fine, until you tell them how much its going to cost to do this on a Saturday!Īs I posted recently, Microsoft have made this a lot easier with the file serve migration tools, which will do the whole thing for you, and migrate profiles, and shares etc. In this example, when the 6th Incremental is created, the first Incremental is merged with the second and existing Incremental images 3 - 5 are updated to indicated that Incremental 1 is no-longer in the backup chain by modifying the file index. This process is repeated for each subsequent Incremental that is run.Įxample 2: Incremental Merge - Retain 5 Incrementals In this example, when the 6th Incremental is created the Full image is merged with the first Incremental and existing Incremental images 2 to 5 are updated to indicated that Incremental 1 is no-longer in the backup chain by modifying the file index. This can be observed by looking at the file modification time stamps in Windows Explorer.Įxample 1: Synthetic Full - Retain 5 Incrementals When backup sets are consolidated by either creating Synthetic Full images or merging Incremental images, subsequent Incremental images in the chain are updated to reflect the consolidation. Please see Delta Indexes for Incremental BackupsĪll backups apart from MS Exchange and SQL can use Delta Incremental indexes Note: This article refers to backup sets that are not using Delta Incremental indexes.
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