Exam AZ-801 topic 4 question 4 discussion

Storage Migration Service, how about Storage Replica?

Storage Migration Service

Fulfills all the requirements: It can copy files, including permissions, and perform ongoing synchronization to keep the destination folder (on Server2) up-to-date with changes in the source folder (\Server1\Data).

The best choice is Option C: Storage Migration Service. Here's why: 1. Copy Permissions: This service moves all your files and keeps their permissions the same on the new server. 2. Sync Changes Easily: After you move the files, if you make any changes to them on the old server, Storage Migration Service can update these changes on the new server without moving everything all over again. 3. Less Work for You: It's designed to make moving files from one server to another easier, so you don't have to do a lot of manual work. The other options either don't handle permissions well, don't sync changes easily, or need more work from you.

Option A. xcopy is a command-line tool for copying files and directories. While it can copy file and folder permissions, it does not provide automatic syncing of changes or support for large-scale migrations. Option B. Storage Replica is a disaster recovery solution that allows for replication of volumes between servers or clusters. It does not provide support for file server migrations. Option D. azcopy is a command-line tool for copying data to and from Azure storage. It is not designed for on-premises file server migrations. C is the answer

C. Storage Migration Service . An important difference in using AzCopy -sync is that deleted files on the source are not removed on the target. That makes for an incomplete differential-copy feature set. AzCopy will continue to evolve. At this time, AzCopy is not a recommended tool for migration scenarios with Azure file shares as the target. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-migration-robocopy

If Microsoft says it's easy with Storage Migration Service have to accept best answer, and it satisfies requirements. Option "Transfer again", copying only files that were updated since the last transfer Is there another version of this question that mentions Azure? Here Azure is not mentioned. Migrate a file server by using Storage Migration Service. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-migration-service/migrate-data

Storage Migration Service using WAC Migrate servers and file shares to Azure or Windows Server 2022, with no apps or users having to make any changes. https://learn.microsoft.com/nl-nl/windows-server/storage/storage-migration-service/overview#why-use-storage-migration-service

This is really tricky. XCopy can do sync and preserve NTFS permissions. AZCopy also can do it. Migration server can also do it. The key point come down to "minimized administrative effort". I stand to believe that GUI is simpler than CLI.

Ok after much research the answer is Azcopy- you can do azcopy sync and this will alow sync differential changes- it's not easy to setup but the other choices are image based and dont fit the situation - just plain and simple - https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-azcopy/issues/1599

good lord this is only server to server copy- i misunderstood the ask- robocopy could fulfull this request. the only thing needed is to copy the files and then sync changes- AZ copy looks to be the simple answer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-ref-azcopy-sync It also minimized administrative effort

This answer is wrong - Azure migration service does not support azure files - from the http - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-migration-service/overview While the Storage Migration Service does not support Azure Files as a destination, it fully supports servers running the Azure File Sync agent with cloud tiering. This looks more like a file sync question - sync without initating a full copy---

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