Import AD data to ReadyNas

A NAS isn't meant to be a replacement for AD. It can connect to it.

Ok, and this is what we are going to do.

Now, is it possible to import files/dirs in ReadyNAS from the Windows server, keeping the same credentials etc...?

I think you can do this using robocopy

mdgm wrote:
I think you can do this using robocopy

Something like this should work:
robocopy source destination /Z /E /DCOPY:T /COPYALL /R:3 /W:2 /MT:8 /V /TEE /LOG:Robocopy.log

Here's what the switches mean:

source :: Source Directory (drive:\path or \\server\share\path).
destination :: Destination Dir (drive:\path or \\server\share\path).
/Z :: Copies files in Restart mode.
/E :: copy subdirectories, including Empty ones.
/DCOPY:T :: COPY Directory Timestamps.
/COPYALL :: COPY ALL file info (equivalent to /COPY:DATSOU). Copies the Data, Attributes, Timestamps, Owners, Permissions and Auditing info
/R:n :: number of Retries on failed copies: default is 1 million but I set this to only retry three times.
/W:n :: Wait time between retries: default is 30 seconds but I set this to 2 seconds.
/V :: produce Verbose output, showing skipped files. Can be omitted (or /NP substituted - inhibits display of progress information).
/MT:n :: Multithreaded, n is number of threads. Can be omitted.
/TEE :: output to console window, as well as the log file.
/LOG:file :: output status to LOG file (overwrite existing log).

<adapted from http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2 ... h-robocopy)

Note this only copies file/folder attributes, it does not copy network attributes (windows share settings). SAMBA might also ignore some of the information transferred - not sure about that. So try it on a test folder first.