Hi,
Your best bet is 'robocopy'. I have used robocopy once upon a time 😉 to migrate data between EMC and NetApp and it worked very well, it's been a while and have never had another opportunity as I landed in all NetApp environment since then fortuantely.
There are many discussions on the Internet that I am sure you would have looked up by now but 'robocopy' tops it as far as CIFS is concerend.
Few articles worth reading:
How to move files to a NetApp CIFS server using Robocopy to retain Windows ACLs:
https://kb.netapp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1029827
(I have used the commands shown in this article and it works well, it preserves the file/dir attributes & permission)
https://niktips.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/scripted-cifs-shares-migration/
https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-Storage-Protocols-Discussions/Easy-and-Reliable-way-to-Migrate-SAN-and-NAS-from-EMC-VNX-to-Netapp-C-mode/td-p/...
You may give it a try NetApp's tool:[This is an old tool and have never used personally, so can't vouch for it]
https://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/sscopy/
EMCOPY: I believe its a native tool for EMC and it also works, though I have never used it.
Example command: [Shows basic switches, you can experiemtn with 'multithreading']
robocopy \\192.168.0.x\share \\192.168.0.x\share /E /ZB /DCOPY:T /COPYALL /R:1 /W:1 /LOG:C:\robocopy.log
1) move data from share to share or from file system to volume? which way is better? = Both works
2) is that possible to maintain all share permissions? = Yes
3) what is the best utility can we use for moving data? = Robocoy
Try it out with few shares and make a call.
Thanks!
