DESCRIPTION

Secure Copy's seamless migration allows an administrator to copy files and directories on NTFS partitions while keeping the security intact, creating shares, and migrating local groups. All of this functionality is available in an easy to use GUI, which keeps you updated on copy progress, as well as any errors that may occur.

Retain security while you copy

If you use Windows NT Explorer or the copy and xcopy commands to copy files, the file permissions are not copied with the file. However, with Secure Copy, you can move the files along with their permissions.

Create shares while copying

Migrate existing shares on the source server to the destination server. As Secure Copy copies each folder, it first checks to see if that folder is shared. If so, Secure Copy will create the share on the destination server and copy the permissions to the share. This outstanding feature makes Secure Copy worth the investment.

Migrate local groups while copying

Secure Copy is the only tool available that will migrate local groups while copying files. (A local group is local to the machine it was created on.) If a local group has permissions on a file in your source server, Secure Copy will create the local group on the destination server and modify the permissions list on the destination file to reflect the newly created local group. If you were to use the "scopy.exe" program in the NT resource kit, every local group would appear as "Account Unknown" in the destination file's permissions list. If the local group name already exists on the destination server, you can be prompted for a new name or select a prefix or postfix naming convention.

Full Command Line Support

Secure Copy is fully functional directly from the command line.

BENEFITS

• Keep the security intact,
• Fully functional directly from the command line,
• Migrate local groups while copying files,
• Move the files along with their permissions.

FREQUENTELY ASKED QUESTIONS

Why do I need Secure Copy?

When using native Windows NT copying methods such as NT Explorer, the copy command or xcopy command, file permissions do not get copied along with the data. If you are copying to and from NTFS partitions, you need Secure Copy to copy the file permissions along with the file data.

I noticed that when I use another security copying tool all the Local Groups permissions on the source computer show up as Account Unknown on the destination server s files. Why does this happen and will Secure Copy fix it?

Each group and user in NT has a unique Security Identifier (or SID) associated with it on creation. Local group SID s are only known on the machine they were created on. Therefore, when the permissions get moved to a new computer, the new computer doesn t know how to translate the other server s local group s SID and you get Account unknown . The reason this occurs is because other programs, like scopy.exe , simply copy the Security Descriptor along with the file. This is fine in some, but not all cases. Secure Copy will allow you to migrate Local Groups from the source server to the destination server while copying files. This means that if you have a local group Accounting on the source server, Security Explorer will create the same local group on the destination server, add all the members to the group, and migrate the permissions to the destination server s files while copying. This ensures you have the exact permissions on the destination server as you had on the source server.

Is there a command line interface for batch file copying?

Yes, Secure Copy has a full GUI and command line interface. If you are just moving a couple of shares, it might be easier to open the GUI and fill in a simple form. However, if you are migrating several servers in your domain to new servers, you might want to create a batch file to do this off-hours. The following is the command line syntax you can read more about it in the help file.

What about file shares? I ve got 100 file shares on one drive, can Secure Copy help me create the shares on the destination server?

Yes. In fact, Secure Copy has the option to migrate all file shares to the destination server while copying the files. As Secure Copy is moving through folders in your directory hierarchy, it will check each directory to see if it is shared on the source server. If so, it will create the same share with the same permissions on the destination server.

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