Re: copy a large number of files / preserve the permissions

From: Rob McShinsky (List_at_mcshinsky.com)
Date: 05/31/05 

Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 10:29:36 -0400

Applying a restore of a backup would work or using Robocopy with the correct
switches will do the trick.

Recently I used Robocopy to do this for some of our users home drives within
a clustered environment and it worked great. It may have been a little
slower than a tape restore, but I was able to automate the movement of user
shares from one drive to another and turn off the previous previous share.
Then all I had to do is check on it periodicly throughout the day.

Rob

"NewGuy" <netlister@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23IldKueZFHA.3572@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Is there a way to copy a large number of files from one system to another
> and preserve the permissions for those files?
>
> I am upgrading a server that stores user's home dir's and just public
> folders etc.
>
> I would like to move the data to the new server over night, but would most
> like that all the permissions stay the same on the files in the folders on
> that server.
>
>
>
> Is this possible?
>
>

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