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,
>
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