Little help with a data migration

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SkittlesMcduck

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I have 2k3 server with 1+ million files that I do not have ownership of. I need to transfer them to a new larger drive to allow for expansion. These files are not system files. This is a data transfer only. I have tried without success to back them up and restore them to the new drive using novastor, but have been unable to restore them (permission issues I think). I am about at the end of my rope as to what to do. My next step is to use a hard drive cloning to clone the hard drive to the new one and just delete the data/partitions I do not need.

Does anyone have any other/better suggestions as to what might work? I have to do this on the weekend as the migration has to be done by the time people come in for work the next morning and there is 100+ gb of data.
 
try unlocker + pathsync?

I had a similar problem and those two programs were my life saver
 
Looking into them they are both very cool programs that I will be adding to my array of tech tools, but in this case I do not have read/write/ownership of the files in question so they will not work for me. I did actually try a test run on pathsync but no luck. Gave me a read error (access denied)
 
..are you logged in as administrator?

edit: stupid question, I know, but you'd be surprised..

anyway, take ownership of the files? check permissions?

can ANY user access these files?
 
..are you logged in as administrator?

edit: stupid question, I know, but you'd be surprised..
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Not a stupid question. That sort of thing has happened to me before...more than I care to admit LOL, but yes I am logged on administrator. The files that I am trying to move are from roaming profiles. They are automatically created when the user first logs in and are owned/accessable only by them.


anyway, take ownership of the files? check permissions?
Click to expand...

Correct me if I am wrong, but if I take ownership of the files then it wipes out the current permissions. If I do that nobody will be able to access their profile accept for me OR I have to go through and manually give each user access to his/her profile.

Sorry for not including this information earlier.
 
Clone the disk then using something to expand the partition? Off hand the linux tool dd would do it followed by partition magic to expand it to the size of the new disk. That should let you bypass any ownership problems. I know there is probably a windows tool out there to do it but off hand don't know what is the best.
 
Clone the disk then using something to expand the partition?
Click to expand...

Probably what I am going to end up having to do. What a pain in the butt. I was hoping for an easier way to do this.

I am going to try and use ntbackup and see if that works first though. If that doesn't work then I will clone.

After I get this all done I have to figure out if novastor can restore files I don't have read/write permissions to. Makes for a pretty worthless backup if you can't restore......
 
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