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Migrate SMB data

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After planning the migration with the show and scan commands, you can migrate the SMB data.

Copy

The copy command scans and copies the entire source directory structure to a destination SMB share. The copy command requires having source and destination paths as variables. The scanned and copied files, throughput/speed, and elapsed time details are printed to the console once every five seconds.

Note During the copy operation, you can use the -preserve-atime flag with the copy command to preserve access time at the source.

Example:

C:\xcp>xcp copy \\<IP address or hostname of SMB server>\source_share \\<IP address of SMB destination server>\dest_share

Run xcp help copy for more details.

Sync

The sync command scans for changes and modifications in the source and target shares in parallel, and applies the appropriate actions (remove, modify, rename, and so on) to the target to make sure that the target is identical to the source.

The sync command compares data content, time stamps, file attributes, ownership, and security information.

Note During the sync operation, you can use the -preserve-atime flag with the sync command to preserve access time at the source.

Example:

C:\xcp>xcp sync \\<IP address or hostname of SMB server>\source_share \\<IP address of SMB destination server>\dest_share

Run xcp help sync for more details.

Verify

The verify command reads both source and target shares and compares them, providing information about what is different. You can use the command on any source and destination, regardless of the tool used to perform the copy or sync.

Note

During the verify operation, you can use the -preserve-atime flag with the verify command to preserve access time at the source.

Example:

C:\xcp>xcp verify \\<IP address or hostname of SMB server>\source_share \\<IP address of SMB destination server>\dest_share

Run xcp help verify for more details.