[homer944]

Question for the server guru's. I will be migrating from some 2003 file servers to a consolidated 2008 R2 cluster soon. Have roughly 9TB on one server and another 9TB on another. What would you suggest using to copy the data from the old servers to the new? Original servers will need to stay online and available during the process and I can't do an actual move.

I looked at the MS file server migration tool, but that takes the share offline while the copy is being done.

I could use robocopy, but it has been a while so I will need to brush up on the switches.

Last thought was to just do a tape backup/restore.


Anyone have any other tools or idea's?