Drives really busy or lack the ability to push enough data? Windows Copy cannot be restarted and a single 5GB file can be cached and is probably sequential. If I copy a 5GB file over with the Windows copy tool I can get 100MB/s, so there isn't a speed bottleneck anywhere. I also tried the Microsoft Migration Toolkit, it counted every single file before copying and then started copying files at a snails pace. Richcopy while it started off strong ended up losing random files which caused me to do a file system restore and gives very scary log messages. What can I do to get all of this data to the new server, preserving permissions in a timely manner?įastcopy, while fast at first ended up slowing down to 1MB/s and stopped working. I have never used DFS before and I am kind of in a pinch for time.Ĭan anyone chime in with some advice on what I can do to ease this migration? I have looked around and saw that DFS might be in my best interest. Keeping the user drives will be easy I found as I just need to use ADModify and bulk change the hostnames on user account profiles. The new server is Windows 2008 x32, (don't ask me why I didn't install the OS, I am not pleased either). The old fileserver is running Windows 2008 R2 圆4, it is not using DFS.

Fastcopy, while fast at first ended up slowing down to 1MB/s and stopped working. I tried using Robocopy and found that it is slow as a turtle and gives absolutely no information on speed or of the percentage of files copied. There are over 500,000 files alone, some files have special permission on them that I can't view, some of them have extremely long names that some copy tools give errors about. And it also contains a users folder which contains every users personal network drive. This file server contains a shared public folder that a lot of different departments put data in. I am in need of moving 400+GB of data to a new server, seems like a simple thing to do right? Over the last 2 weeks or so I have attempted to use many tools, all which have failed in some way or the other.

Fastcopy v3.05