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I have been tasked with migrating our existing Windows server 2016 and all of its shares over to the Isilon. I am trying to figure out the best way to migrate/recreate our shares on this new infrastructure. I can handle the copying of the data using Robocopy and a colleague told me that NTFS permissions can't be copied via robocopy to Isilon, also he recommend me something called datadobi but my client is concerned about cost so datadobi may not be a hood candidate is what I gathered, any other suitable solution can success the migration process?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
Hi NotStopIsilonProblems
I appreciate that you are trying to help, but we don't need to take the risk of losing any single permissions or any bit of data .
after your replying, I did a research and I found that u r right, robocopy can copy security permissions but not all the types of permissions and as an example check this post
we need to do the migration without any risk and now we are testing the trial version of GoodSync and Gs RichCopy 360 .... Finally if we don't reach any suitable solution, I will try to convince the client with datadobi .
This is what I am planning for
AnderoMarko
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Posted December 11th, 2020 03:00
We are running into the same problem and the cutover is this weekend, have you ended up finding a solution?
AnderoMarko
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Posted December 11th, 2020 09:00
Any update? Before reaching out for the support of "EMCopy" ?
AnderoMarko
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Posted December 11th, 2020 23:00
I have an Email from this community that there is an accepted solution, when backing to here, I didn't find any update!!!! The accepted solution has some path and I don't know which is the right one
DHoffman77
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Posted December 18th, 2020 07:00
Yes you can do this. I'm doing it right now.
NTFS is kept in tact
I'm using EMCopy instead of RoboCopy. Not sure if there are any real differences, but it works great.
Feel free to get with me directly if you have any specific questions.
@DHoffman77 in my case, I don't think that both will help to copy all the types of permissions. and as I mentioned before , Gs RichCopy 360 did the job.
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Posted April 30th, 2021 13:00
Datadobi has starter packs available that allow you to migrate Windows (or any other NAS source) to Isilon. Permissions are 100% retained as an automatic feature of the multi-threaded, parallel file copies. All content is verified between the source and destination and a full chain-of-custody report can be downloaded after cutover events. The migrations are policy driven with no need to write any scripts. It’s easy to use and it is fast with the shortest cutover times in the industry!
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Hi AnderoMarko,
It seems like we are leaning towards Gs RichCopy 360 , the engineer said it past all of his tests and we migrated a few smaller shares with no issues. We chose ones with quite a bit of explicit permissions and they came across perfectly.
The speed could be better but to be fair, it could be related the old hardware we are jumping off.
We tried to use goodsync but it did not seem to transfer the permissions when we tested it. He was sure it should but could not figure it out,