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Are there risks of garbled file names or character encoding issues when migrating data using Robocopy?

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Robocopy
  • CIFS

Answer

  • No, there is no risk of garbled file names or character encoding issues when migrating data using Robocopy.
  • The Robocopy application writes data to the destination using the original information it reads from the source.
  • Based on the characteristics of the CIFS protocol, it is theoretically impossible for data that is correctly read from the source to be incorrectly written to the destination.

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