Robocopy File transfer

Question

I transferred file shares using robocopy, the cmd says the transfer was successful but I am not able to see the shares. What exactly is the problem here?

Answer 1

Hi @Whitney Kenny ,

Robocopy will simply copy the data, permissions, audit but not the actual "shares", for the shares you'll need to export the following registry key:
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares and import it on the new server.

This is covered in the Microsoft documentation over here:

Saving and restoring existing Windows shares
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/networking/saving-restoring-existing-windows-shares

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