Migrating Windows server 2016 to the Isilon

Hi NotStopIsilonProblems

I appreciate that you are trying to help, but we don't need to take the risk of losing any single permissions or any bit of data .

after your replying, I did a research and I found that u r right, robocopy can copy security permissions but not all the types of permissions and as an example check this post 

https://www.dell.com/community/Isilon/NTFS-Permissions-Isilon/td-p/7195475?fbclid=IwAR2tZ3_WjaNhttOHiQ5qZ6SjXLV8OmrGBcbc69-0U5dxkWLFzTx7_lCiz1Q

we need to do the migration without any risk and now we are testing the trial version of GoodSync and Gs RichCopy 360 .... Finally if we don't reach any suitable solution, I will try to convince the client with datadobi .

This is what I am planning for  

@mariat00

We  are running into the same problem and the cutover is this weekend, have you  ended up finding a solution?

Any update? Before reaching out for the support of "EMCopy" ?

I have an Email from this community that there is an accepted solution, when backing to here, I didn't find any update!!!! The accepted solution has some path and I don't know which is the right one 

Hi AnderoMarko ,

  I hope the solution will be helpful for you 

I don't know ,, I posted the solution from 20 min and I do not find it anywhere in this thread .

you can check with the moderators 

Yes you can do this.  I'm doing it right now.

NTFS is kept in tact

I'm using EMCopy instead of RoboCopy.  Not sure if there are any real differences, but it works great.

Feel free to get with me directly if you have any specific questions.

@DHoffman77  in my case, I don't think that both will help to copy all the types of permissions. and as I mentioned before , Gs RichCopy 360 did the job.

Datadobi has starter packs available that allow you to migrate Windows (or any other NAS source) to Isilon. Permissions are 100% retained as an automatic feature of the multi-threaded, parallel file copies. All content is verified between the source and destination and a full chain-of-custody report can be downloaded after cutover events. The migrations are policy driven with no need to write any scripts. It’s easy to use and it is fast with the shortest cutover times in the industry!

Hi SteveLeeperDD  , sorry for replying late,I know that datadobi is great and can do what I need in my issue, but as I said " my client is concerned about cost so datadobi may not be a hood candidate is what I gathered,", that's why I was searching about a low-cost alternative and I found Gs Richcopy360 which did the job perfectly and still works fine.

We are in a similar situation, migrating from a VNX5800 CIFS shares to an Isilon PowerScale.

Robocopy can copy access rights, including share ownership using the /copy:datso option. In our case, we're using both the /mir and /copy:datso options and it's working well. Our number of shares and file counts are similar to what you have. We stood up a server with scheduled nightly migrations specifically for this purpose. Once a share is migrated, we use Beyond Compare to make sure source and target are in sync.

Also, there is a licensed tool you may want to consider:

 https://datadobi.com/migrate/ 

Best regards.

Hi All 

for the same problem you suggest 3 tools to copy folders and files with keeping the permissions to Isilon :

Datadobi

Gs Richcopy 360

Beyond Compare

which one is free please?

Permissions are specified by a Security Identifier (SID). When you join the Isilon to your Active Directory domain, it looks up the same SIDs, so all permissions should be preserved.

Why not copy over some files and test that specific groups/users have access? You shouldn't need to do anything special other than ensure permissions are copied over.

Cheers,

-Y

Back in the day, I used emcopy.  Keeps NTFS permissions.   The first run is always the longest and is a copy of everything.   NExt daily runs were smaller.  I needed to have 40 days of backup, so daily copy.  Worked well for us.