Migrating file shares from server to CIFS

Use sharedup. It will copy the shares and permissions. You can find the sharedup exe on the NAS CD (I also uploaded it to ftp://ftp.emc.com/incoming/sharedup/exe in case you don't have the NAS CD). I use the following sharedup command to copy the shares and permissions:

sharedup.exe \\source-cifs \\target-cifs drive_letter /P \filesystem_path /R /SD /LOG+:log.txt

have you tried emcopy ?

No I have not.  I'm new to this and haven't heard of emcopy. 

Do I install sharedup on the source server or on a workstation?  The server is 2003 SP2 and the workstation is Windows 7.

Thanks!

try emcopy, actually robocopy is pretty fast on WIndows 2008 ..what parameters did you specify ?

when you say "do not carry permission", are you talking about directory/files ?

I didn't set any parameters on robocopy.  robocopy \\server\share \\server\share 

The folders and files copied but not the permissions.  The other consideration is that I have ~600 GB to migrate across a WAN.  My understanding is that robocopy can be slow (I'm using Server 2003)

That is correct.  I set up a test file with certain permissions and those permissions were gone once I copied the file to the SAN.  ( full control, domain admins, etc. became "everyone")

You don't need to install it. You can run it from anywhere. I recommend you copy/paste the exe on the source server and run it from there

get the latest version here:

EMCOPY64 Release 4.14

EMCOPY Release 4.14

EMCOPY Usage and Release Notes

sharedup re-creates shares and their permission, it does not copy the actual data

Thanks dynamox. I haven't used emcopy yet but have used sharedup. Good to know.

EMCopy should work.

With Robocopy, you need to use the /copy:S or /copyall switch to tell it to copy the ACLs.  See this article for more information:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145(v=ws.10).aspx

dynamox and Wei Chen,

Do you guys know what the difference between emcopy and sharedup is? When would you use one tool over another?

Thanks!

here are my params for robocopy, note that /FFT is very important for incremental copies

/MIR /NFL /FFT /R:1 /W:1 /NP /COPYALL /B