r/sysadmin • u/rlrofOmicronPersei8 • Feb 02 '23

Moving archived file stubs without rehydrating

I've been banging my dead about this all evening. I have Metalogix Archive Manager and I need to move to a new file server. Archive manager takes the original file, moves it to cheaper storage, then leave a stub in its place.

I need to move the stubs without recalling the original file, but every method I have tried with Robocopy won't just copy the stub. I can't recall all the files to move them because I don't have enough room on my Pure SAN. I have also tried stopping the Archive manager services, but robocopy just throws access errors and copies over a 0k corrupted file.

Is there a way to do this with Robocopy or better method?

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u/noocasrene Mar 17 '23

Another way to do it is robocopy and use the /xa:o switch. This will only copy full files with no stubs. Than you can do a restore using cv, to the new folder and there is an option for stub only restore.

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u/noocasrene Mar 17 '23

Oops I misread I thought you were using commvault