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December 13th, 2020 01:00

copy shares to an Isilon

Hello Experts 

We are switching from our traditional windows file server shares to an Isilon. Thus , we are looking to migrate from our two windows file share . The engineer working on this project evaluated Robocopy and EMC Copy and while they worked fine for the most part, he said the administration overhead to manage the jobs and look after the logs for errors do not make it practical. His reason was the we have a total of roughly 27 shares. Some of these shares have more than 10 million files\folders. These are legal archives that we must hold on to for years. The management of errors (due to NTFS permission restrictions or open files) has made it impossible to go through the logs and see which ones have errors. Especially as we rerun. We are hoping to find a GUI based tool that could copy the data, manage the jobs in a single pane of glass and rerun deltas automatically on a set interval. If there are errors (which we anticipate due to NTFS permissions are messed up on many folders over the years), then we would love to see it in one area without having to dig through what copied and what did not. Last but not the least, we need to preserve the folder time stamps. This is a client requirement which is making it hard to find in any of the GUI tools we have evaluated thus far. Long Path name support is also a requirement but I figured this is pretty much standard nowadays. We are not allowed to use any open source. So we are looking for a commercial product. Budget is not usually an issue, but this is not something we budgeted for and it is the end of the year.

My apologies for the long thread but I figured to give you all the details at once. Any recommendations? Or any ones I should steer away from?