File Copy - Directory of 150+ Gb.

All,
I am trying to copy 150Gb from a Windows 2000 NAS server to a Windows 2003
Storage Server NAS server using XCOPY. The syntax that I used was as
follows:

~~NOTE: some path names have been edited for security reasons~~
xcopy \\192.168.55.56\company-archives "e:\SERVER2 backup\Company Archives\"
/e /v /h /k /x

The destination directory is empty. During the process I received this
warning a few times before canceling the job:

~~NOTE: some path names have been edited for security reasons~~
Overwrite E:\SERVER2 backup\Company Archives\EngServer
Archive\Eusers\gary\projects\original\digital-dsp\gain_adj\rev1\DC_DC_~1.bak
(Yes/No/All)?

Remember that the destination directory was empty. The first time I
received this, I said YES. I then went to the directory and the file was
not there. In every case the problem file name was in the short form of 8.3
DOS naming convention. (XXXXXX~1.XXX or FILENAME.TXT getting renamed to
FILENA~1.TXT)

I know that XCOPY is old. Is there a better utility that will run on Server
2003 x64 to pull the files off the old NAS server? I know of ROBOCOPY but I
can't use it since the server is x64. Is there a utility that can be
installed on the Windows Server 2000 Server that will work better on pushing
the files to the new NAS server? I have tried BackupExec 11d but have not
been able to get a 100% success as of yet. The plan was to copy the files
onto the new NAS server and then us BackupExec to put them onto tape.

Please let me know what you think!

Thanks,
Nick

Nick wrote:
> All,
> I am trying to copy 150Gb from a Windows 2000 NAS server to a Windows
> 2003 Storage Server NAS server using XCOPY. The syntax that I used was
> as follows:
>
> ~~NOTE: some path names have been edited for security reasons~~
> xcopy \\192.168.55.56\company-archives "e:\SERVER2 backup\Company
> Archives\" /e /v /h /k /x
>
> The destination directory is empty. During the process I received this
> warning a few times before canceling the job:
>
> ~~NOTE: some path names have been edited for security reasons~~
> Overwrite E:\SERVER2 backup\Company Archives\EngServer
> Archive\Eusers\gary\projects\original\digital-dsp\gain_adj\rev1\DC_DC_~1.bak
> (Yes/No/All)?
>
> Remember that the destination directory was empty. The first time I
> received this, I said YES. I then went to the directory and the file
> was not there. In every case the problem file name was in the short
> form of 8.3 DOS naming convention. (XXXXXX~1.XXX or FILENAME.TXT
> getting renamed to FILENA~1.TXT)
>
> I know that XCOPY is old. Is there a better utility that will run on
> Server 2003 x64 to pull the files off the old NAS server? I know of
> ROBOCOPY but I can't use it since the server is x64. Is there a utility
> that can be installed on the Windows Server 2000 Server that will work
> better on pushing the files to the new NAS server? I have tried
> BackupExec 11d but have not been able to get a 100% success as of yet.
> The plan was to copy the files onto the new NAS server and then us
> BackupExec to put them onto tape.
>
> Please let me know what you think!
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
>
>


You might want to try ROBOCOPY instead... Also, the old SCOPY from the
NT4 resource kit always worked well for me - it's simple, few switches,
but very effective for basic copies.