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 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: Don.Hickey@alcatel.com [mailto:Don.Hickey@alcatel.com] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:08 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Migrating NT directories...

Basic question.... what tools are commonly used to migrate NT directories with complex permission sets? NT is not very good at preserving permission's. I'm looking at the best method of migrating NT group directories, many of which have very specific file permissions.

I've tried tools such as dumpacl but many of the functions don't work against the filer. I'm running 6.1.1R2 on clustered 840's.

Thanks!