Right, what we wish (or need) to do is to migrate a NAS from a old machine to a new one.
problem is, we wish to keep the folder hierarchie intact, and all the settings and shares.
Now I vaguely recall microsoft used to have a tool to do exactly this.
It would copy the folders exactly, with the rights intact, and then remove the shares on the old machine and reactivate them on the new machine.
Now is there anyone who could help me find it again, or perhaps find a better solution for it ?
Much appreciated guys
You may be thinking of the Microsoft File Server Migration Kit (FSMT). Here's a link to the download from their site. FSMT has some pretty stringent OS requirements and is designed to move Windows file servers. Depending on the specifics of your NAS, this may or may not be the tool for you. Maintaining the permissions should be straightforward as long as you don't have local trustees contained in the permissions on the source NAS. If you do have local trustees, you'll need to decide whether to create corresponding local trustees on the destination NAS and repermission the data on the destination. The alternative would be to set up domain trustees and repermission using them. Tools like SecureCopy can help with these types of group manipulations as well as moving the data.
I ended up using RichCopy. Microsoft tool, works great, decent UI.
Yes I could've used robocopy / FSMT but this works too.
Cheers for any help anyways