Microsoft support was correct this time

After the long and painful process of moving 1.2 terabytes of badly organized data from one server to another, I found out that Microsoft Business Critical Support was right this time. In my last post, I was wondering if they were full of it when they said it had to be a hardware issue. However, after destroying and re-building the external array, the DFS sync worked perfectly.

If you're wondering why it took so long to move data, it was because this client regularly exceeds 256 character file names and command line copy utilities like XCOPY and RoboCopy fail routinely. I have to use BackupExec or NTBackup to do a full backup and restore.