http://www.freewarezoom.com/archives/backup-to-neighbor Download only Freeware. Free Download of thousands of free software programs, daily updates, no adware, no spyware, just download and use for free. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:15:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.freewarezoom.com/archives/backup-to-neighbor#comment-33291 Albert Olson Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:54:21 +0000 http://www.freewarezoom.com/archives/backup-to-neighbor#comment-33291 Nice tool. But what about migrating file shares? I've never thought it could be so hard to maintain the share copy. We keep a large set of user shares where each share is dedicated to the particular task. We store some documentation, regulatory data and other stuff for it to be available across our corporate LAN. We added a new server to our farm and decided to move some shares to it to facilitate sever load. That were the folders containing a structured data personalized by a department and sometimes topic according to the information it stores. And we were shocked when we realized that the new cloned copy of the directory structure has lost its network access security settings. Moreover, additional pain was added by the "Account Unknown" record that appeared to the ACL on all the copied shares. After some minutes spent to understand the problem we realized that the problem is that we simply don't have this local group accounts on the destination server. Docs here and there say, we should have recreated the accounts on the new server. Googling for the solution gave an answer that solved the problem. We just used the <a href="http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/securecopy/" rel="nofollow">Secure Copy</a> (it's from Scriptlogic) tool and it was it. The best thing for me was that it was not needed to copy the whole data again. The tool just moved what has been changed since we moved the data and applied security settings by recreating the groups on the new server. While it's obviously not a freeware I would recommend trying it as for the whole month it works free without any limitation. Nice tool. But what about migrating file shares? I’ve never thought it could be so hard to maintain the share copy. We keep a large set of user shares where each share is dedicated to the particular task. We store some documentation, regulatory data and other stuff for it to be available across our corporate LAN. We added a new server to our farm and decided to move some shares to it to facilitate sever load. That were the folders containing a structured data personalized by a department and sometimes topic according to the information it stores. And we were shocked when we realized that the new cloned copy of the directory structure has lost its network access security settings. Moreover, additional pain was added by the “Account Unknown” record that appeared to the ACL on all the copied shares. After some minutes spent to understand the problem we realized that the problem is that we simply don’t have this local group accounts on the destination server. Docs here and there say, we should have recreated the accounts on the new server. Googling for the solution gave an answer that solved the problem. We just used the Secure Copy (it’s from Scriptlogic) tool and it was it. The best thing for me was that it was not needed to copy the whole data again. The tool just moved what has been changed since we moved the data and applied security settings by recreating the groups on the new server. While it’s obviously not a freeware I would recommend trying it as for the whole month it works free without any limitation.

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