I'd like to impose once more for some advice and opinions. I have a Win 2008 R2 file server; I need to migrate everything (shares and user home folders) to a Win 2012 R2 Storage Server, and then retire the old server. Everything is one 1 drive, with 3 main folders (Shares,Users,Scans), total size in the neighborhood of 2TB. Both have 4 teamed 1G NICs, so a total bandwidth of 4G.
I'm thinking of use robocopy. I would make a full copy over the weekend: Source=OldFS\F$ Destination=NewFs\d$ RoboCopy <Source> <Destination> /S /E /ZB /COPYALL /R:1 /W:1 /V /NP /NFL /NDL /LOG+:<LogFile> That should get everything, NTFS security and all sub-folders. I thought about the /MIR option, but I've never used it, and so am just a touch leery (perhaps illogically). The end goal is to: copy all the files and shares to the new FS; re-name and re-IP the old FS; power off the old FS; re-name and re-IP the new FS to the old name. (this way I can power up the old FS, just in case I need it for something I've missed) That *should* make things transparent to the end users. (ordinarily, I would think about doing a restore from my backup program Networker. But this is a remote site, and I believe that doing a local robocopy will probably be faster than trying to restore 2TB of what is probably a lot of small user files and folders across a 1G link) What have I missed? What would make it better?
