Moving Complex File Shares

[ddrueding]

I'm way too tired to be doing critical stuff, and would like some verification before I mess up.

File Server is a member of the Domain and has 3 large (RAIDed) drives on it formatted NTFS. Drives A, B, and C contain 1-3TB of data each. C is large enough to store everything, and I'd like to move all the data to that drive.

Now the complex bit. The folder structure on A and B is very complex, including detailed file/share permissions, and multiple share levels in folders and sub-folders.

Just to make sure I have this procedure right:

1. Record all the file share locations and names, as these will be lost during the move.
2. Don't worry about the permissions, as these will be saved during the move.
3. Move all the data
4. Re-share using the same share names and all client drive mappings will remain.

Does that sound right to everyone?

 

[Chewy509]

yes, sounds good.

BTW, what are you using to copy the data files?

PS. I normally would use this from the command lineto preserve ACLs, ownership, etc:
$ xcopy /o /e /z /j /x /h /g /i /v <src> <dest>

 

[ddrueding]

Thanks for the sanity check.

That looks about right. I don't do it enough to know all the switches, but the help file is pretty good at it.

 

[ddrueding]

There is no j, assuming you meant g or h? I ended up going with this:

/c/f/h/e/h/x/g/i

I'll confirm the files afterward.

 

[Chewy509]

There is no j, assuming you meant g or h? I ended up going with this:

/c/f/h/e/h/x/g/i

I'll confirm the files afterward.

Sorry /j must only be on Win7 and Win2K8 R2. (Use unbuffered IO).