Move user folders to another server?

[bofhrevenge2]

We are soon to remove some of our old servers and replace them with new equipment, these servers contain alot of shared work and user folders approx 200Gb. I will be able to run these servers side by side on the network so XCOPY is an option.

What suggestions would you guys have? I was thinking about XCOPY and moving the data in managable chunks but someone suggested redirecting a backup to the new server.

Any tips?

Thanks.

 

[sqoil]

Check out ROBOCOPY or PERMCOPY

http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopyXP.html

 

[NickFerrar]

I usually do this kind of thing via an ARCserve copy job and then use Hyena to copy the shares + permissions. I also use Hyena to copy local groups over if they've been used for permissions. Last time I did this though the ARCserve job didn't preserve the permissions so I ended up doing an XCOPY just to transfer the permissions over. Next time I'll probably just use XCOPY to move the data.

 

[bofhrevenge2]

Hmmm I’m leaning towards XCOPY myself as it's free and it seems to work very well albeit a bit slow.

Thanks guys.