<div>I've got an older file server running Server 2008 (not R2) and I've got the new file server that's going to be replacing it running 2012 R2. They're both under the same AD, so the switch should be fairly simple.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>download robocopy gui for windows server 2019</div><div></div><div>Download Zip:
https://t.co/4uv3NSOmVI </div><div></div><div></div><div>It mirrored the share over to my new server, including all subfolders and included files, and it applied permissions to the root share but not the subfolders, which is an issue. How do I copy permissions and have them stick to every subfolder/file under the main share?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Also, is there a way to duplicate the data drive entirely? Instead of going share by share, if I want to copy the entire contents of D drive on source to E drive on destination, along with permissions, can I use robocopy to do this? </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>If there is another tool that would make this easier I'd be happy to try that as well.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I use DellEMC emcopy, found here _EMCOPY_File_migration_tool_4.17.exe Opens a new window. You need to have a Dell customer account to download, but you may find a copy elsewhere. It can run more threads than robocopy, threads are adjustable, and has more configuration options. Here's a description of the switches available -tool/ Opens a new window. Here is the config I run: c:\emcopy64.exe \\ServerName\e\ E:\ /xjd /xd "System Volume Information" /o /secforce /s /de /sd /r:1 /w:5 /c /th 32 /purge /sdd</div><div></div><div></div><div>We saw a similar issue with robocopy sometimes where it did not copy permissions of some of the subfolders. We had to troubleshoot permissions on the source to grant our user the full access (our user was actually an administrator on the source. You can certainly copy the whole partition instead of some of it. just set the path for source and destination to be the same.What we ended up doing with jobs that had security issues or just do not play well with robocopy is use other solutions like peersync or gs richcopy360 They both worked very well with the permissions.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>I've verified my domain\Scheduled Tasks account has Full Control NTFS permissions on both the source and destination, and the Full Control Sharing on my hidden \server1\backup$ share. Just for giggles, I've tried adding the domain account to the local Administrators group on both servers. This works fine, but that seems like a lot of privileges just to copy files. Any ideas on what I'm missing?</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>But as soon as I put it in a scheduled task, it fails with return code 0x10 (16), which is a serious error. So I assumed a network permissions error and tried scheduling the action between two local folders. The same error occurred and no robocopy.log output file is created. I am running the action as an Administrator.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Instead of using a mapped drive letter, use the UNC path of the share (\\servername\sharename\folder). That'll simplify things since your mapped drives are associated with your session, not necessarily the session that the scheduled task runs in.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I'm trying to copy some directories from a server before I restore from backup (my latest backup was corrupt, so I have to use an older one :( ). I'm in the Windows Recovery Environment and have access to the server's file system G:\ and my backup media C:\. But, since I'm more familiar with Linux, I'm having a bit of trouble with the command line in Windows, specifically robocopy.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Apparently, including trailing slashes keeps robocopy from parsing the list of directories correctly, so be sure not to include trailing slashes on directory names and remember to put quotes around directories with spaces in the name.</div><div></div><div></div><div>My solution for this was to create .txt files that contain the files or directories I want to include or exclude. I have these files in a subfolder "rcXcludes" under my "Backup" folder. My method for naming the files is as follows. I preface them with "rc" (for robocopy), then some recognizable notation for the application or part of the file system in the robocopy command, then append "B" or "R" (for Backup or Restore), then "I" or "X" (for Include or Exclude), then "D" or "F" (for Directory or File). I surround each entry with double quotes and a space between entries.An "Include" file can have files or directories, but directories must have a trailing backslash. In an "Exclude" file for directories you do not use a trailing backslash. Any directory entries are relative to the source path in the robocopy command. The entire contents of any of these .txt files must be on one line and not have a carraige return line feed.In my batch file, I use a SET /P command to import the .txt file into a variable. I then use these variables for FILES or after /XF or /XD.For instance, to backup the current user's Chrome profile without copying the entire "Default" folder, I use the following.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I aborted it moments after seeing this fly by in the log and recognizing what was happening. But the damage is already done, the data on the deduplicated new server was instantly corrupted by Robocopy as it stormed through \System Volume Information. The new server drive partition has be formatted and recopied all over again from Server 2008.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Also, I have a new concern.. if Robocopy can destroy a deduplicated volume, what else is unsafe to use with a deduplicated volume, that sees right through it and can destroy the underlying data that should only be accessible by the server? (probably should be a separate question..)</div><div></div><div></div><div>It's the combination that did you in: /MIR will delete (as pointed out when you run robocopy without arguments) and "Backup mode" defeats most permissions in order to be able to read files "normally" unreadable in order to make complete backups.</div><div></div><div></div><div>You didn't know that? 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As you perform this copy, you preserve all file metadata from your on-premises data centers or from your self-managed file servers on Amazon EC2.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Open Command Prompt and map the source file share on your existing file server (on-premises or in AWS) to a drive letter (for example, Y:) as follows. As part of this, you provide credentials for a member of your on-premises Active Directory's Domain Administrators group.</div><div></div><div></div><div>If you are copying large files over a slow or unreliable connection, you can enable restartable mode by using the /zb option with the robocopy in place of the /b option. With restartable mode, if the transfer of a large file is interrupted, a subsequent Robocopy operation can pick up in the middle of the transfer instead of having to re-copy the entire file from the beginning. Enabling restartable mode can reduce the data transfer speed.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Backup a Server:</div><div></div><div> The script below copies data from FileServ1 to FileServ2, the destination holds a full mirror along with file security info. When run regularly to synchronize the source and destination, robocopy will only copy those files that have changed (change in time stamp or size).</div><div></div><div></div><div>Are you considering copying or transferring files from one server to another? For you, we have the best solution. Many servers desire to migrate their files to get better performance and more scalability. On the other hand, some server users move their data to another server because they want to change providers.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Copying files from one server to another is a common operation for server administrators. There are various methods to complete this work, and we will discuss the best way to perform this task. 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