Thursday, June 28, 2007

User migration with in the Domain but between servers

One of the main issue propped up during server migration was Users data. Going through many documentations and articles I finally found and an easier and simple way to migrate the users data(Here I am not talking about My Documents, we are looking at home directories). Do a backup or the data and restore it with permissions using a external HDD if you can. For me one more issue came up with it was in the new server I wanted to segregate the users data ie. Students and Staff separate. So the path is going to be different than what it was in the old server. But the xcopy /o command came in very handy when you deal with moving data with in server with all permissions. Hurray I have all users data in the new server with appropriate shares and permissions enabled
Kewl doesnt it?
Anyway I am very happy with way migration took place
Have a great day ahead

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