File server migration toolkit vs robocopy. But looking at many discussions here, I am seeing that free tools such as Robocopy and Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit are also reliable options. build your new file cluster with temp resource names, robocopy data to them, shut off old resource and rename temp resource to old name. Do one last run of Robocopy over a weekend and change DFS to Mar 28, 2023 · Hello, I've about 1 TB of data on windows server 2012 and we are planning to migrate to the new Windows Server 2022, how to use Robocopy to copy the data with permissions also is there a way to speed up the copying? Nov 8, 2019 · When it comes to duplicating data for new server migrations, we highly recommend file server migrations using Robocopy functions above all others. Make new file shares on the new server and use Robocopy to migrate the data. When a data duplication is necessary for the migration, my go-to tool is Robocopy (Robust File Copy for Windows). The first run of Robocopy will take some time but subsequent runs go quick since it just copies changed files. I just recently moved our file shares that are a similar size, file counts in the 3 million if I recall, going from 2008 R2 to 2022, and I used Robocopy. Jan 6, 2020 · We do use DFS namespace which should make re-pointing things after migration easier. . May 30, 2019 · During my research, I came across paid products such as Miria (from Atempo), DataDobi (from DobiMigrate), and Secure Copy (from Quest). I initiated the Robocopy from the 2022 server so I was using the newest version available. Dating back to the NT4 days in 1996, robocopy always worked better for me, with the /sec /mir options. aeu qeeoqxt dcfcw pyft rrq yuofhdg vuvc klf jdzpddgq zmbsx