Well, to be fair, I wasn't going to write out his full robocopy command, he still has timestamps and file permissions to preserve. I was just mentioning a possible gotcha of trying to stage data at the final destination...
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Don Kuhlman <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's an example of the /r and /w options on robocopy > > /r:3 /w:2 = retry 3 times, wait 2 secs between retries > > etc... > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jonathan Link <[email protected]> > *To:* NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:38 PM > > *Subject:* Re: File Server Migration - File transfer utility > > Oh, and you might want to set the retries to 1 or 0 and the wait on an > open file to a second or two, too. If a file is open, I think it retries > 30 times for 30 seconds (I'm not looking this up, just kind of remembering) > which could make the initial copy take a LONG time if a number of files are > open. > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:23 PM, N Parr <[email protected]> wrote: > > ** > Ditto, run it whenever to get the bulk of the data copied. Then kick > everyone out, run it again to roll up any changes, let everyone back in. > If you want a GUI with a ton of options you can look at this app. I use > it as my primary file level back solution but it also works great for > little projects like this. It's dirt cheap for everything it can do. > http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/sbpro.html > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:26 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: File Server Migration - File transfer utility > > Sure robocopy will do this just fine. > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Juned Shaikh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings: This subject must have made several rounds already but here it > is again. > > -> Doing major file migration (~20TB); all from Windows box to another > windows box - tool of choice Brocade StorageX is broken. > > -> Tried richcopy (which all the chatter suggests replaces robocopy) - > Crashes all the times - reliability factor is a huge concern. > > I want to know from someone who has indeed used any free/opensource tool > or paid tool to transfer the file where ACLs and timestamps must gets > transferred over. > > Thanks in advance, > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
