How to painlessly migrate a file server without losing shares?

Question

Windows Server

There is a MS Windows Server 2003 R2 server with 2 TB of data shared through NTFS rights to users in the domain.
I want to transfer the entire server (more precisely, files with balls) to another machine with Windows Server 2008 R2 without losing user access rights.
Some file names are longer than 250 characters. DFS is not configured.
Tell me what can be done about it?

Answer 1

Robocopy is yours.
Transferred to the ball 1TB. Long, but with all rights and timestamps.
www.cyberforum.ru/cmd-bat/thread792016.html

Answer 2

There was a similar issue. For several years, a SEA of garbage has accumulated in the balls. On the new server, I created new empty balls with rights. Through the manual, I ordered to move (not copy, but move) only the necessary files to new balls within 2 weeks. After 2 weeks, I closed the old balls, put the "remains" in the archive. The volume of the ball has almost halved - from 2T to 1.2T. About the "leftovers" every 2-3 months someone remembers - we get him a file from the archive.
Or go out into the night - name the new server as the old one, attach the old disk to it, register the balls. In the morning no one will notice the difference. Rights will be preserved.

Answer 3

there will be no such balls, it will be necessary to set up a new one, the file with access rights can be copied, for example, in the total, but the setting of the ball must be adjusted

Answer 4

Along with transferring files, I would recommend moving away from giving users access to a shared folder in the form \\server\share
Step 1st: Connecting the shares as a network drive
Step 2nd: configuring DFS and, accordingly, connecting a network drive through a DFS share.
Step 3: DFS replication to a new location, disabling the old link.
If there is a question about the speedy transfer, then there are two options:
1. Connect the disks to the new server by turning off and removing the old one from AD. Create the same balls. Tell users or DNS to register an alias from the old name to the new one.
2. xcopy /?
Additionally: you can follow the path that Andrei Ermachenok advised : putting things in order has never bothered anyone.