We've had much success using robocopy version 1.95 available in the Windows 2000 Resource Kit.

From the console of the source NT 4 or W2K server, map the Z:\ drive to the appropriate destination volume on the filer. To avoid fragmentation, move the data in two steps -- The /CREATE switch creates a directory tree structure containing zero-length files only. The second pass actually copies the data to the destination. The /SEC switch preserves NTFS permissions. Here's an example . . .

PASS ONE robocopy "F:\folderA" "Z:\Accounting_TOP\folderA" /E /SEC /CREATE /R:3 /W:1 /V /LOG:folderA1.TXT

PASS TWO robocopy "F:\folderA" "Z:\Accounting_TOP\folderA" /E /SEC /R:3 /W:1 /V /LOG:folderA2.TXT

-----Original Message----- From: Wurster, Richard M DSTI [mailto:rick.wurster@SBCCOM.APGEA.ARMY.MIL] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 11:48 AM To: 'Kitch, David'; 'Pucky, Todd M.'; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: NT file permissions lost on shares after logout

Definitely Secure Copy (Small Wonders Software) does the job. We migrated a Tb of data successfully last weekend using the product.

--Rick Wurster

-----Original Message----- From: Kitch, David [ mailto:dkitch@ti.com mailto:dkitch@ti.com ] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 11:21 AM To: 'Pucky, Todd M.'; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: NT file permissions lost on shares after logout

We haven't had much success copying permissions with ROBOCOPY, even on NT and Win2K. You might try a third party application like SECURECOPY. You might also compare your revision of OnTap to the bug list.

Regards, David ----------------------------------------------------- David Kitch Strategic Development Team ITS Design Systems - Texas Instruments Dallas, TX 214-480-1242 dkitch@ti.com -----------------------------------------------------

-----Original Message----- From: Pucky, Todd M. [ mailto:Puckyt@timken.com mailto:Puckyt@timken.com ]

Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 9:49 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: NT file permissions lost on shares after logout

I am a rookie on NetApp filers so this may be an easy one for some. I have an F840 filer with mapped NT 4 drives. I used ROBOCOPY.EXE to copy the data

to the NetApp box so that file permissions would be maintained. I then went

back to my NT box and mapped a drive to the NetApp box. Everything appeared

to be fine. I then logged out of the NT box and logged in under a new user ID and all of the NT file permissions were lost. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to maintain these permissions when admins log out. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Todd M. Pucky The Timken Company Global Information Systems Programmer/Analyst 330.471.4583 puckyt@timken.com

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