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« on: Friday, June 5, 2015, 13:00:04 » |
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When transferring users data between machines what do you use
We tend to do it the old fashioned manual way or use windows easy transfer but they want something here that will just automate it and is nice and to speed things up - wondered what others used
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« Reply #1 on: Friday, June 5, 2015, 13:04:30 » |
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I'm guessing these are standalone PC's? A network would be ideal, then all data will be secure and backed up.
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« Reply #2 on: Friday, June 5, 2015, 13:25:03 » |
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Use a batch file to either back up to a network drive, or USB.
@ECHO OFF
COPY c:\users\%username%\documents e:\backupfolder
Simple.
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« Reply #3 on: Friday, June 5, 2015, 13:33:34 » |
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What exactly are you doing? I guess as you mention Easy Transfer that you're moving users to new PC's?
Best practice is to store all user data on network shares. Easy to backup, easy to move to/work from a new PC.
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« Reply #4 on: Friday, June 5, 2015, 14:48:52 » |
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Use a batch file to either back up to a network drive, or USB.
@ECHO OFF
COPY c:\users\%username%\documents e:\backupfolder
Simple.
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« Reply #5 on: Friday, June 5, 2015, 15:19:39 » |
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Takes me back to my MSDOS days, lovely
MSDOS 6.22 was my favourite, loved writing batch files, I still use command prompt in Windows 7 for some things.. |
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« Reply #6 on: Friday, June 5, 2015, 20:04:26 » |
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Just been doing a Windows Server course and its amazing how much you can actually do with cmd and powershell if you know how
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« Reply #7 on: Friday, June 5, 2015, 20:23:51 » |
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I still miss basic.
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Or something like that, it was a long time ago that I did my gcse in computer studies.. I passed with something similar
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« Reply #8 on: Friday, June 5, 2015, 20:52:49 » |
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MSDOS 6.22 was my favourite, loved writing batch files, I still use command prompt in Windows 7 for some things.. drivespace nearly lost my a level project when it corrupted. And one of my computer science lecturers used to have an "I'm boss of ms dos" sweatshirt. two reasons to hate dos. I do need a command line though. |
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« Reply #9 on: Friday, June 5, 2015, 21:55:02 » |
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You had computers when you did A levels?? I thought you were just a bit younger than me batch  #didyouralevelsatthirty |
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« Reply #10 on: Friday, June 5, 2015, 22:37:36 » |
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« Reply #11 on: Saturday, June 6, 2015, 01:58:54 » |
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« Reply #12 on: Saturday, June 6, 2015, 15:14:10 » |
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Just been doing a Windows Server course and its amazing how much you can actually do with cmd and powershell if you know how
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« Reply #13 on: Monday, June 15, 2015, 14:19:17 » |
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What exactly are you doing? I guess as you mention Easy Transfer that you're moving users to new PC's?
Best practice is to store all user data on network shares. Easy to backup, easy to move to/work from a new PC.
Agreed storing on a network share would be ideal but unfortunately that does not happen and users wish to have access to their data when off the network, offline folders isn't always reliable so it is stored locally. Just wondered if anyone knew of any software that copies over data and settings automatically at by entering a few simple bits of information - I know things like Dos commands etc - it is giving people new machines, there is a large number of people over the next few months and it is time consuming selecting what is required and either copying over the network or to USB then to the new machine, if there was some migration software that can be used it would be handy. |
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« Reply #14 on: Monday, June 15, 2015, 21:11:46 » |
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I don't recall having any major issues with offline folders, plus you now have the Work Folders option as well.
Though I can't really talk, most of our user data is stored locally at work and PC moves are a manual process.
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