Copying files from Win2003 to Win2008 R2 server as part of migration to new 2008 server. Using RichCopy GUI, running as admin, using options to set feature to copy time stamp, file attributes and security. It successfully copies files/folders (to a new share), but it looses the file/folder security. what am i doing wrong??

the files and folders you copy inherit their permissions from a parent folder. As you copy them to another destination, this setting is also copied and they inherit their permssions from the new parent folder (the target). May this be the case? hth Gregor Stefka

Hi, In destination, whether you input an exists folder or a non-exists folder (to let Richcopy create it)? Meanwhile please use robocopy to test the same step. You can run: robocopy <path-sourse> <path-destination> /copyallShaon Shan| TechNet Subscriber Support in forum| If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com

I also ran into the same problem with RichCopy. When copying files and folders, the permissions would not copy over. After a bit of troubleshooting, it seems that RichCopy does not copy over inherited permissions. On top of that, it doesn't seem to copy the explicit permissions from the root folder you're copying from. It will, however, copy explicit permissions on all subfolders and files. To get around this, I went one more folder up for my root, and then used the Exclude option to exclude the folders I didn't want to copy. All the permissions then copied over. Example: \\server\share\Dept\ has subfolders for Finance, IT, HR, etc. If I selected the check boxes for IT and HR to copy, the permissions did not copy over. If I go one level up and select \\server\share\Dept as the root, and then exclude Finance (and other folders I'm not copying over), the permissions copied over correctly. Odd I know, but it did actually work.

Richcopy is a multi-threaded Robocopy but does not appear to be able to copy NTFS permissions. I had to retire a NetApp Filer and migrate the files to a Windows 2008 file and print server. Here's what I had to do: RichCopy for the initial copy to leverage multithreading (wait for completion)Use multithreaded Rocopy to do the incremental plus security permission copy. robocopy "\\souce\share" "\\target\share" /MIR /E /SEC /V /XO /NP /LOG+:"e:\logs.txt" /MT:10 /Z /R:0 /W:0 Use the /MT command to specifify how many threads to run, default is 8. Use /Z to make the job restartable.