Secure Copy does copy ACL's (and shares as well).  You are probably thinking of ssh/scp... but I believe the OP is talking about ScriptLogic's tool: http://www.scriptlogic.com/Products/securecopy/

SnapMirror to tape sounds like a good solution here if there's a tape device at both ends (or the tape device can travel).

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Nils Vogels
Sent: Tue 10/21/2008 5:59 AM
To: David.Ashton@rullion.co.uk; Toasters
Subject: Re: CIFS migration

Hi Dave,

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:39 AM,  <David.Ashton@rullion.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm planning to migrate a windows server full of data to a CIFS vol on my
> FAS3020. This volume will be snapmirrored to a remote filer over a 10Mb
> line.
>
> The data is 300GB+, and its already a fairly busy line. Time to initialise a
> mirror is going to be over a week ( and i have to throttle during the day)
>
> Moving the remote filer temporarily is not something I want to do.
>
> I'm using Secure Copy (http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/securecopy/) to
> do the copying.
>
> Is there anyway to bypass the complete 300GB snapmirror initialize? What is
> more palatable is:
>
> 1. copying data to a USB disk and transporting that to the remote site,
> copying over to the mirror destination vol. OR
> 2. Performing the secure copy twice - transporting the server (or its disks
> for use in another server) and copying directly to the mirror destination
> vol
>
> Any ideas or am I  SOL?

If you want a snapmirror relation, you will need the snapmirror
initialize, no way to circumvent it, because it needs to do a
blockwise copy of the complete volume, including metadata. The
metadata is stuff that isn't presented to you, it's internal to NetApp
only, so you can't copy that.

If you want to use a host-based mirror (which is not the exact same as
SnapMirror) I would recommend using tools that also copy the ACL's on
the files, such as robocopy. Secure copy, to my knowledge doesn't copy
the ACL's, which means you loose the information of who can access
which data, resulting in Joe the Plummer having access to the banking
details of Mr. CEO. Might not be a good idea, given the credibility of
Joe these days.

HTH & HAND,

Nils
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