Filename too long for destination..

Yaayuh! · 8 Nov 2013 at 09:46

Yes, that old chestnut.

I have a little project to move over 3Tb of data from an ancient (but bullet-proof) Apple X-Raid attached to an X-Serve box on 10.4.11 to a new MD1200 on a Windows Server 2008 box.

Anyone had to do something similar?

How can i do this whilst avoiding the dreaded "Filename too long" issue? Is there any tools out there to "truncate" the names to within the limit?

TIA

Uhtred · 8 Nov 2013 at 10:25

Map the network drive further up the path if possible

Maybe robocopy would help?

Yaayuh! · 8 Nov 2013 at 10:33

Uhtred said:
Map the network drive further up the path if possible

Maybe robocopy would help?

There's so many folders and paths, that would take an age, something i thought of but would definitely want to avoid.

Can robocopy deal with Mac shares? XXCOPY failed to help.

I'm trying "FreeFileSync" at the moment, looks promising.

anything I don't mind · 8 Nov 2013 at 10:43

I've using the freefilesync recently to move data between servers and i found it works well. Total commander is what i usually use for that sort of thing. The annoying thing about total commander is that it will stop half way through and prompt you for input. Which is no good when you have to move 100s gb of data and want to leave it over night.

LostCorpse · 8 Nov 2013 at 12:08

honestly, i'd use robocopy output the log, then re-run it again for a clean log to see were any errors are. mapping to the folder your mirroring from will help drastically.
i thought the new version of robocopy in windows 7 and server 2012 had support for long file names?

Mr-White · 8 Nov 2013 at 12:34

Robocopy would copy the long filenames, I've had to migrate 6TB accross 2 SANs and it worked a treat. I couldn't tell you if it would work with macs, luckily we don't have any.

MW

Yaayuh! · 8 Nov 2013 at 13:56

FreeFileSync has done a test copy brilliantly. Can even compare afterwards in a second scan to show the differences between the locations.

Everything copied with exception to Icon files, which i wasn't expecting to copy and are unimportant.

Huzzah!

Yaayuh! · 13 Nov 2013 at 11:42

Ok, slight problem. It appears that Windows can't deal with Mac fonts. We have a load of fonts that have copied across as "FILE" as the type and 0kb in size...

Any ideas?

randomshenans · 13 Nov 2013 at 16:02

You can get a freeware software that will convert the text coding, run that first. Can't remember the name of it, but will look at the one we used.

leigh_boy · 13 Nov 2013 at 16:17

use cmd, and robo copy.. you can look up the commands it will work

George Hincapie · 14 Nov 2013 at 15:11

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/vsubst.html