migrate 1000 Cifs shares from windows 2003 R2 Server to filer

[#1]

hi,

what is the best way to migrate ( via script ) around 1000 CIFS file shares from a Windows 2003 Server to an NetApp FAS with CIFS.

Is there a way to script the creating in a simple way, or exists a tool for that ?

Cheers

holger

[#2]

Hi,

The method I usually use is Windows Robocopy. If you create a main share folder on the filer then you can use Robocopy to migrate the files to it over the LAN.

Robocopy is basically a file copying script but it does have a GUI front-end. You can also choose to keep the same file permissions, security etc which is very handy when using AD.

You can download Robocopy from the Microsoft site.    

[#3]

Hi,

its not just the copy of all the Files. The very important thing is the automatic creation of the shares. We won't create every single Share by hand. Is there a oppertunity to do this automatically ?

regards

Edmund

[#4]

OK, in that case then I'd research the Data ONTAP PowerShell scripts to create a cmdlet which lists the shares of the server and feeds them into a NetApp create new CIFS share command.

Once this is done, the CIFS shares should be created for you to run Robocopy on.

[#5]

It might be easier to modify the etc\cifsconfig_share.cfg. You could create a dummy share that will show you the syntax of the file then just add all your shares in the cfg file.

[#6]

Hi

secure copy wil do the job

https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=3.0.3170247.2644771

it can copy files, directories, ntfs security, shares, share security

http://www.scriptlogic.com/Products/SecureCopy/secure-copy-5.0-datasheet.pdf.

Regards

Boris