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Title: One for the IT Bods Post by: Power to people on Friday, June 5, 2015, 13:00:04 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 Title: Re: One for the IT Bods Post by: Sippo on Friday, June 5, 2015, 13:04:30 I'm guessing these are standalone PC's? A network would be ideal, then all data will be secure and backed up.
Title: Re: One for the IT Bods Post by: Samdy Gray on Friday, June 5, 2015, 13:25:03 Use a batch file to either back up to a network drive, or USB.
@ECHO OFF COPY c:\users\%username%\documents e:\backupfolder Simple. Title: Re: One for the IT Bods Post by: jonny72 on Friday, June 5, 2015, 13:33:34 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. Title: Re: One for the IT Bods Post by: Berniman on Friday, June 5, 2015, 14:48:52 Use a batch file to either back up to a network drive, or USB. @ECHO OFF COPY c:\users\%username%\documents e:\backupfolder Simple. Takes me back to my MSDOS days, lovely Title: Re: One for the IT Bods Post by: Peter Venkman on Friday, June 5, 2015, 15:19:39 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..Title: Re: One for the IT Bods Post by: Chubbs on Friday, June 5, 2015, 20:04:26 Just been doing a Windows Server course and its amazing how much you can actually do with cmd and powershell if you know how
Title: Re: One for the IT Bods Post by: suttonred on Friday, June 5, 2015, 20:23:51 I still miss basic.
10 fuck off 20 go to 10 Or something like that, it was a long time ago that I did my gcse in computer studies.. I passed with something similar Title: One for the IT Bods Post by: Batch on Friday, June 5, 2015, 20:52:49 Quote 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. Title: Re: One for the IT Bods Post by: 4D on Friday, June 5, 2015, 21:55:02 You had computers when you did A levels?? I thought you were just a bit younger than me batch :sherlock:
#didyouralevelsatthirty Title: Re: One for the IT Bods Post by: Batch on Friday, June 5, 2015, 22:37:36 Cheeky fucker.
I'm not saying they weren't powered by steam mind. #definitelyPastIt Title: Re: One for the IT Bods Post by: jayohaitchenn on Saturday, June 6, 2015, 01:58:54 Teracopy
Title: Re: One for the IT Bods Post by: jonny72 on Saturday, June 6, 2015, 15:14:10 Just been doing a Windows Server course and its amazing how much you can actually do with cmd and powershell if you know how If you haven't already have a look at DSC - it's the future of server configs. Title: Re: One for the IT Bods Post by: Power to people on Monday, June 15, 2015, 14:19:17 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. Title: Re: One for the IT Bods Post by: jonny72 on Monday, June 15, 2015, 21:11:46 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. |