What issues should you pay attention to when migrating a file server?

Regardless of size, almost every company has its own file server, or a simple shared folder. With the explosive growth of data and the accumulation of time, the amount of data often exceeds the capacity of the server after two years.

To solve this problem, of course, first of all, do a good job of data management, using technology and administrative means to restrict users to keep work-independent data on the server (especially audio and video files, taking up a lot of space), The other is to archive regularly and archive historical data that has not been changed for a long time to other media (about data archiving is relatively long, there is time to write another description, there are many products on the market for archiving data). On the basis of these two points, because of business development, the speed of normal data growth is also very amazing. If the server capacity is exceeded or the server is too old, it needs to be migrated to the new higher performance server. .

About data migration, because the amount of data is particularly large, and in general, each folder has its own permission settings, and some management is not good even have a good multi-layer subfolder including file permission settings. If you copy directly, the probability of error is high, and the second permission itself cannot be copied to the new server.

There are several ways to solve this problem better:

1. With the old XCOPY command, plus the appropriate parameters, the reliability is relatively high. It can be copied as an intermediary via intranet or by other media.

2. Synchronize all files to the new folder via the network using the synchronization software. Microsoft has also produced such a small tool. This method is not highly reliable and has a high probability of error.

3. After the most convenient and reliable way of practice, use VERITAS BE to make a full backup of the old related folder, then install BE AGENT on the new server, then use this full backup to restore and redirect to the new one. On the server. This method is simple and reliable to operate.