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copy shares to an Isilon
Hello Experts
We are switching from our traditional windows file server shares to an Isilon. Thus , we are looking to migrate from our two windows file share . The engineer working on this project evaluated Robocopy and EMC Copy and while they worked fine for the most part, he said the administration overhead to manage the jobs and look after the logs for errors do not make it practical. His reason was the we have a total of roughly 27 shares. Some of these shares have more than 10 million files\folders. These are legal archives that we must hold on to for years. The management of errors (due to NTFS permission restrictions or open files) has made it impossible to go through the logs and see which ones have errors. Especially as we rerun. We are hoping to find a GUI based tool that could copy the data, manage the jobs in a single pane of glass and rerun deltas automatically on a set interval. If there are errors (which we anticipate due to NTFS permissions are messed up on many folders over the years), then we would love to see it in one area without having to dig through what copied and what did not. Last but not the least, we need to preserve the folder time stamps. This is a client requirement which is making it hard to find in any of the GUI tools we have evaluated thus far. Long Path name support is also a requirement but I figured this is pretty much standard nowadays. We are not allowed to use any open source. So we are looking for a commercial product. Budget is not usually an issue, but this is not something we budgeted for and it is the end of the year.
My apologies for the long thread but I figured to give you all the details at once. Any recommendations? Or any ones I should steer away from?
DELL-Sam L
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December 15th, 2020 10:00
Hello birydedo,
Here is a link to another post where one customer has used a different software to do there move of data. https://dell.to/2WvjVuB
DELL-Sam L
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December 14th, 2020 11:00
Hello birydedo,
EM copy or Robocopy are the approved ways to copy your data from a Nas or server to an Isilon system. You might be able to use a 3rd party software that can migrate the data over.
birydedo
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December 15th, 2020 01:00
Any recommendations please ?
birydedo
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December 26th, 2020 01:00
Sam L, I hope you have a nice day. your link was the best solution that did not cost us much. The GS RichCopy 360 Enterprise was able to convince us
J_maio
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March 17th, 2021 04:00
birydedo , I have an issue quite similar to this, I have about 18 shares, some have thousands /millions of files and folders my question is are you sure, all your shares /permissions copied and applied?
I was about to post a question like that, so your reply will make everything clear
cadencep45
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March 24th, 2021 05:00
look at dobi miner. This is licensed by dobi by size of data being migrated, but does sync windows and unix permissions in a heterogeneous environment and provides nice status reports for pre migration status and post migration audit purposes.
They partner with EMC so are a valid option. https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/data-migration-for-isilon/docs
if its a green field site, ensure you work in conjunction with EMC professional services as isilon integration to environment is worth getting right
( Customer - no axe to grind )
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March 3rd, 2022 10:00
J_maio and cadencep45 ,
dobi miner was an available option to us when we faced this issue, but we were searching for something cheaper and we found Gs Richcopy in the dell community as an accepted solution for transferring files with permissions (shared and NTFS) to Isilon and we found that it can do the same job for NAS, the tool has no limit for the data being migrated and the license is forever, in the other side dobi miner licensed by the size of data being migrated .the important thing for me was, it saved our time and our money
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August 13th, 2022 06:00
Thanks for suggesting Gs Richcopy 360 , it still works with no hassle