Best way to.....?

[mboy]

Transfer a whole bunch of files and folders from 1 server that is being removed, to a new server which will replace it with the same name in the network, and save the permissions on the files and folders. Is there a way to transfer thru the network with some kind of file replication, or tape backup and restore? I guess I will also have to set up the exact same shares as well. OS is NT 4 server sp6. I don't want to have to recreate the permissions on 1000s of files and go around and change everyone's shortcuts on their desktops. Looking for the best way to do this.
Thanx!

 

[mgpaulus]

How about just exchanging the disk(s), or adding the old disk into the new server?

 

[mboy]

Nope, the old server is 2 7gb old scsi drives raid 0, new one is 3 36gb scsi raid 5. Old server is a PII 350mhz, 512 pc133, new one is 1.13 PIII 640 pc133. Have to be copied over, swapping drives just wont work. CAn I ghost the old D drive (where all files are) and install image to new d drive? Will that keep everything the way it should be?

 

[DnetMHZ]

With the tape drive you can backup then restore the data on the new server. Most backup software has an option to retain permissions on restore.

 

[mboy]

I use Arcservet, so I will look into that. Thanx.