Moving data between servers?

Hello again,

Over the weekend I tried to move tons of data from one server to the other.
The source server is a DC and I was logged in as the Administrator for the
domain. I have two problems I hope someone can help me with!

1) I got permission denied on quite a few files. Why??? I'm the domain
administrator and this account owns all the folders, why would I get
permission denied???

2) The destination copy had all the permissions screwed up, like no
permissions were preserved at all. How do I do a move and preserve the
ownership and permissions??? Is there a data migration utility that I
should be looking at as opposed to the standard copy?

-brian
brian@visionpro.com

Lanwench
Mon Mar 24 07:20:22 PDT 2008

Brian McGrew <brian@**************> wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> Over the weekend I tried to move tons of data from one server to the
> other. The source server is a DC and I was logged in as the
> Administrator for the domain. I have two problems I hope someone can
> help me with!
> 1) I got permission denied on quite a few files. Why??? I'm the
> domain administrator and this account owns all the folders, why would
> I get permission denied???

Are you entirely sure the Administrator (or the group Administrators) *is*
the owner and has full permissions in NTFS too, to *all* your data? It's
entirely possible you don't, especially if you use folder redirection, or
roaming profiles, or other such folders that are dynamically created.....

>
> 2) The destination copy had all the permissions screwed up, like no
> permissions were preserved at all. How do I do a move and preserve
> the ownership and permissions??? Is there a data migration utility
> that I should be looking at as opposed to the standard copy?

What did you use to do the copy? I generally use robocopy from the Resource
Kit -

robocopy <source>\ <destination>\ /sec /e /r:1 /w:1
>
> -brian
> brian@*******************

OT, but don't put e-mail addresses in newsgroup posts or in your account
settings unless you love spam. Nobody should be replying to your posts via
e-mail anyway, as that defeats the point of the group, but if you are going
to do it, munge it.

JohnB
Mon Mar 24 07:32:59 PDT 2008

I'm just curious; do you have a tape backup? And if so, why not do a
restore, with redirection to the new location? It's usually "fast", and
keeps the NTFS permissions.


"Brian McGrew" <brian@visionpro.com> wrote in message
news:%23ld72hbjIHA.2084@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hello again,
>
> Over the weekend I tried to move tons of data from one server to the
> other. The source server is a DC and I was logged in as the Administrator
> for the domain. I have two problems I hope someone can help me with!
>
> 1) I got permission denied on quite a few files. Why??? I'm the domain
> administrator and this account owns all the folders, why would I get
> permission denied???
>
> 2) The destination copy had all the permissions screwed up, like no
> permissions were preserved at all. How do I do a move and preserve the
> ownership and permissions??? Is there a data migration utility that I
> should be looking at as opposed to the standard copy?
>
> -brian
> brian@visionpro.com
>

Brian
Mon Mar 24 07:39:02 PDT 2008

> Are you entirely sure the Administrator (or the group Administrators) *is*
> the owner and has full permissions in NTFS too, to *all* your data? It's
> entirely possible you don't, especially if you use folder redirection, or
> roaming profiles, or other such folders that are dynamically created.....
-----

I am not the worlds foremost Windows expert, I come by this task out of
necessity, so please, bare with me!

I am positive that I'm logged in ast the domain administrator. I am not
positive that Administrator owns every single folder that is out there. I
come from a Unix background where the root user can do all.

How do I get around this? I would think that the Administrator can do
anything with any file??? How do I do this?

-brian

Lanwench
Mon Mar 24 07:50:33 PDT 2008

Brian McGrew <brian@visionpro.com> wrote:
>> Are you entirely sure the Administrator (or the group
>> Administrators) *is* the owner and has full permissions in NTFS too,
>> to *all* your data? It's entirely possible you don't, especially if
>> you use folder redirection, or roaming profiles, or other such
>> folders that are dynamically created..... -----
>
> I am not the worlds foremost Windows expert, I come by this task out
> of necessity,

Who set up the server?

> so please, bare with me!

I hardly know you - let's both stay fully clothed. ;-)

>
> I am positive that I'm logged in ast the domain administrator. I am
> not positive that Administrator owns every single folder that is out
> there. I come from a Unix background where the root user can do all.

Your domain admin *can* take ownership of things it doesn't own. you can't
lock it out of that. However, it doesn't need to own everything or have
permissions to same in order to work. And much depends on how the server was
set up (& why things are set up as they are).

>
> How do I get around this? I would think that the Administrator can do
> anything with any file??? How do I do this?
>
> -brian

Try robocopy as suggested. Find the files/folders that don't work. Check out
their properties & report back.

Brian
Mon Mar 24 08:11:57 PDT 2008


> Try robocopy as suggested. Find the files/folders that don't work. Check
> out
> their properties & report back.
-----

Will try Robocopy tonight and repost tomorrow... Thank you for all your
help.

-brian

Lanwench
Mon Mar 24 09:15:53 PDT 2008

Brian McGrew <brian@visionpro.com> wrote:
>> Try robocopy as suggested. Find the files/folders that don't work.
>> Check out
>> their properties & report back.
> -----
>
> Will try Robocopy tonight and repost tomorrow... Thank you for all
> your help.
>
> -brian

Cool. And re the server & setup questions.... ?