We are migrating our fileservers again.
The original servers were all standalone Windows 2000 Servers. They were migrated to a Windows 2003 cluster with about 10 Servernames that directly represented the standalone servers they replaced.
The volumes contain 100's of shares, disk mount points, SUB mount points. It's just a real mess. Close to 40 Terabytes of data.
We are trying to find the best way to migrate to a Windows 2008 cluster.
I've suggested that we use DFS Consolidated Roots to maintain the legacy links, as to not break the 1,000's of sharepoint links. In addition I'd like to consolidate many of the volumes, and completely get rid of the annoying sub mounts that we have.
On the surface, the Microsoft File Migration Toolkit appears to do exactly that.
So I've created a virutal lab environment, but what I'm finding is that with Mount Point volumes, none of the security settings are copied over, and sub mount points are completely ignored.
The DFS Consolidation Wizard seems to do it's job, which is nice. But I need a solution for consolidating the filesystem. I like the way the FSMT can correctly move the files to appropriate Resource groups based upon the file paths, it also does the nice deed of removing the old volume share once the new share is created.
But the lack of copying the security settings makes it a deal breaker. Is there possibly a tool that can square up the security settings between servers?
Best Answer
I haven't done what you're doing before, but I'll throw a shout out for the SetACL utility (http://setacl.sourceforge.net/) and its backup / restore security descriptor functionality.
It would take some work to get it to do exactly what you want, because it stores absolute paths in its "backup" files (so you'd have to script something to go thru those backup files and munge up the paths), but it might just do what you want.