I'll third (or fouth?) thr robocopy recommendations. It does everything you're mentioning, and you can't beat the price.
On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian, > > Oh neat, I didn't even know about the /MON option on robocopy. I need to > read the docs again, it has been a while. > -Nate > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Brian Mathis wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Rob Cherry <[email protected]> wrote: > > Has anyone ever used unison? (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) > > I have a large file server migration coming up (large being relative - > its only .5Tb - but large for us). We are migrating to a new domain > infrastructure. As such all the SIDs and ownership of files is going > to be messed up regardless. I would like to start copying today with > a final cutover in about a weeks time. Would this list favour xcopy > with the appropriate diff flags and a scheduled task, or should I give > unison a shot for continuous update sync? > > Regards, > Rob Cherry > > > I tried to use Unison at home between 2 systems, and even on a wired > LAN it was incredibly slow. It was faster to just copy the whole > files. > > Have you looked at robocopy? That's very close to the "rsync" > equivalent for Windows. I use that quite a bit and it works pretty > well. It has an option (/MON:n) where it watches the source and will > update the destination automatically (though I have not used this > myself). > > Deltacopy is another option, which is billed as "rsync for Windows". > > As long as you're copying in 1 direction only, these tools should do it for > you. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
