File Copy Screen

Specifies the root directory of the what will be copied.

 

Perferaby, remote folders should be given relative to an administrative share like c$.

 

Example:

                  \\remotehost\c$\PublicFolder\FolderToCopy

Specifies the parent folder which to copy the source directory-tree to.

 

Preferably, this should be gived relative to an administrative share like c$.

 

Example:

                  \\destinationhost\c$\PublicFolder

 

You should avoid copying to a remote host. You should run this program from the machine you want the files to be copied to.

This will delete the entire destination directory if it already exists.

Copies all nested files and subdirectories.

 

If this is not checked, only security/timestamps/etc will be copied if the destination file already exists on the destination host.

 

If you only want to copy directory/file security and no data then you should uncheck this.

Copies NTFS security permissions, audit rules and ownership for files and directories.

Copies timestamps of files and directories.

Copies all shares defined in the source directory tree to the destination host.

 

This will copy all permissions across and import and users/groups if necessary, irrespective of any other setting.

After copying file data this option can will verify the data was copied correctly.

 

If it was not copied correctly, it can retry the copy as many times as you want before giving up.

 

This feature is useful when migrating from a faulty storage device which produces intermittent read errors at a hardware level.

 

If a directory resists being listed or a file/directory resists having security permissions enumerated, this will attempt to grant the executing process Administrator rights to that object.

 

As NTFS security is quite flexible, it is possible to lock out administrators to files and directories.

When copying security between servers all referenced local users and groups are ordinarily not copied as they do not exist on the destination machine.

 

This option will try to find a local user/group on the destination machine by name.

 

If no such object exists, it will import that object and then map to it. You will need to specify the default password to imported users.

The copy process needs to have the correct security rights to access all the files it needs to copy.

 

You can either run the copy as the currently logged on user, or impersonate a user.

Starts the copy process.