Secure Copy Problems-and-Solutions

Problem - An administrator wanted to migrate an old NT Server to a new Windows Server 2003 box. They had limited time to do this and the old server was failing pretty regularly. They wanted to be able to copy data to the new server ?

Problem- An administrator wanted to copy data between servers, but knew that copying data between hard disks or between servers would cause the files and folders to lose all NTFS security.

Solution- The administrator used Secure Copy because it allowed them to copy data between the servers and retain NTFS permissions on the files and folders. It even migrated local groups and set security on the files and folders appropriately for those migrated groups. Migrated groups also retained proper memberships.

Problem - An administrator created a custom scripting solution using the Resource Kit tool Robocopy to copy data with permissions between servers. When the copy was complete, he realized that the data on the new server had proper security, but that security was useless since he was using local groups in the ACL?

Problem - An administrator wanted to migrate all data from a volume on one server to a volume on another server. The problem was that the volume contained 1200 user home directories, each with a file share associated. Even being able to copy the data with security would not be enough. They also needed to migrate these entire file shares.

Solution - The administrator used Secure Copy to copy the data with security, as well as file shares and security. They also found that they could copy this data and file shares without having access to them simply by being an administrator on the servers. All data and shares were exactly duplicated on the new server.

Problem- An administrator wanted to migrate an old NT Server to a new Windows Server 2003 box. They wanted to make sure that security would properly follow the Windows 2000 and later inheritance model.

Solution- They used Secure Copy to perform a copy from the legacy server to the new one. The new data reflected proper security supporting the inheritance model, just as the data would have if they performed an in-place upgrade of the operating system.

Problem- An administrator has a serious data management problem. He was responsible for maintaining several large file servers of both Windows NT and Windows 2000 flavors. They wanted to be able to consolidate these servers into a single server or NAS (Network Attached Storage) device. They did not know how they would be able to do this and keep security intact while migrating local groups and file shares to the new machine.

Solution- The administrator decided on a high end Windows Storage Server NAS device and used Secure Copy in a single job to copy the contents of all data volumes from the old servers to the new single device. This freed them up to concentrate on more pressing network issues.

Problem- An administrator had a server with a data drive that was running low on space. They installed a new large drive that would fit their needs. The issue they faced was how to get the data to the new drive with minimal impact on end users.

Solution- The administrator chose Secure copy to copy the data and file shares, both with security intact between drives. They did this over the weekend so on Monday users would be able to access the shares on the server and they would really be accessing the new large drive. This was totally transparent to the end users who experienced zero impact or knowledge of the data migration.