question on data migration

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I am looking for a way to migrate data that have very complex permission
settings. Many folders with many different permissions. What is the best
way to do this?

Thanks
 
Frank said:
I am looking for a way to migrate data that have very complex permission
settings. Many folders with many different permissions. What is the best
way to do this?

Thanks
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Both xcopy.exe and robocopy.exe have switches to
copy ACL settings.
 
Will this work well for 300+ GB of data? As I thought there might be some
limitations that Xcopy had. I have not had any experience with robocopy.

So if I use robocopy, the command would look like this?

robocopy <source> <destination> /copyall /sec /mir /log <logname>
 
If I am looking to keep the data live and available during this copy, can I
setup a mirror of the data partition to the new drive and then once the
drives are in sync, break the mirror and remove the old drive? Are there any
limitations if I try this?
 
xcopy.exe works in most cases but it appears to run out
of memory in some cases.

My version of robocopy does not have the /copyall switch.
The /mir option seems to be a bad, bad idea - very dangerous.
Your idea with the mirror is interesting and I expect it to work.
Note that the machine will be quite slow while the mirrir is
being built up.
 
Do you know if there will be any limitations on the new volume? It is on an
expandable raid platform, so if I add additional drives the new volume can be
expanded. So I don't want to mirror the volume if it is locked into its
current size.

Thanks for your help.

Frank
 
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