Re: Best way to copy user's home areas onto a new drive

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xxcopy.exe is a souped up version of xcopy.exe. It has many
additional features but where xcopy.exe fails, xxcopy.exe will
probably fail too.

I recommend you try robocopy.exe. It has most of the features
of xxcopy.exe but is far more robust. Furthermore it is a
native Windows command, downloadable with the Windows
Resource Kit.


"Anteaus" <Anteaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:62E85ED1-6451-436D-9A32-F8DDD7B12497@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I find that this kind of bulk copy is rarely straightforward. Windows' own
tools simply don't measure-up to this kind of job.

XCOPY will almost invariably fall-over eventually if presented with
multiple
GB of data. All this requires is one file with an over-long name,or
invalid
characters in the name, and ka-blam, it bugs-out faster than if it had
been
handed a hot tattie.

Explorer is even worse, in that it reports no error but stops short of
doing
the whole job, leaving you THINKING it's worked... :-/

I tend to use Servant Salamander 2.5 for bulk copies. I'm not sure what
its
limits are, but I've used it on a 140,000-document collection with
complete
success. There was one bad file in this collection which it duly reported
and
skipped.

http://www.altap.cz - Commercial but very reasonably priced.

(Tip; to copy permissions press F5 instread of drag-and-drop, F5 will show
the copy options, of which this is one)

Another tool with good reports is XXCOPY.


"DHamer" wrote:

What we need to do is move all the users home areas onto a new set of
faster drives going into the same unit (i.e the same server).

Firstly, how could I copy the files accross and retain all the
ownerships and permissions? Bearing in mind we are talking about 1TB +
of data so I dont want to have to keep on confirming.




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