Originally posted by: Smilin
First, Nogginboink is absolutly right. That's a surefire way to get things moved.
Tell us more about what you are trying to do.
Is it a migration or upgrade?
Source and target OSs the same?
What does the source and target storage look like?
Any splitting of data TO multiple drives? Any consolidation FROM multiple drives?
What sort of shares are attaching to the data?
Is it a migration or upgrade?
It is a migration.
Source and target OSs the same?
Yes and no (mostly yes). Moving from Windows 2000 Server to Windows Server 2003.
What does the source and target storage look like?
I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Basically we have a D: drive on the fileserver with folders for the four locations, a folder for all locations, the users$ folder that contains the personal network home folders for all the users, and a few other things. This is a real estate property management company, so there are tons of sites, and like each site has invoices and reciepts and contracts and letters and aerial photos, etc. It's crazy. Our Atlanta folder alone has almost 3000 folders, and that's just one of them.
Any splitting of data TO multiple drives?
Yes and no. I'm not positive, but I think it will just be a big RAID 5 volume.
Any consolidation FROM multiple drives?
Not that I know of.
What sort of shares are attaching to the data?
Not sure what you mean here either. Almost every folder is shared to the users. Some scanners connect to various folders as well for scan-to-network-folder functionality.
I agree about the backup/restore process pretty much doing what we want. But my manager wants the permissions map as backup. Basically she wants me to inspect all users and groups assigned or denied persmissions on every folder on that server and make note. We're talking like 10,000 folders. It's ridiculous. But I'm just a co-op so I have pretty much zero pull.