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Sun

2005-05-06, 5:46 pm

hi all,

We are moving old server to new server. I am using robocopy command to
transfer data from old server to new server. But its taking long time
to copy all data (42GB took 9 hours). I am copying over the network by
mapping old machine share to new machine.

Is there better command or procedure to copy files, I want to minimize
the transfer time.

Thanks
-SR
http://www.sfgroups.com

Maxim S. Shatskih

2005-05-06, 5:46 pm

FTP is by far faster then SMB. Start the IIS's FTP server and use FTP.EXE
on the client - works very fast.

--
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

"Sun" <sfgroups@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1115390301.935449.26220@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> hi all,
>
> We are moving old server to new server. I am using robocopy command to
> transfer data from old server to new server. But its taking long time
> to copy all data (42GB took 9 hours). I am copying over the network by
> mapping old machine share to new machine.
>
> Is there better command or procedure to copy files, I want to minimize
> the transfer time.
>
> Thanks
> -SR
> http://www.sfgroups.com
>



Sun

2005-05-07, 5:46 pm

Thanks for you info, FTP won't transfer file with ACL. so i can't use
FTP.

Thanks
-SR

Charles Morrall

2005-05-07, 5:46 pm


"Sun" <sfgroups@gmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:1115390301.935449.26220@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> hi all,
>
> We are moving old server to new server. I am using robocopy command to
> transfer data from old server to new server. But its taking long time
> to copy all data (42GB took 9 hours). I am copying over the network by
> mapping old machine share to new machine.
>
> Is there better command or procedure to copy files, I want to minimize
> the transfer time.
>
> Thanks
> -SR
> http://www.sfgroups.com
>
>


How about just restoring from backup to the new location, assuming your
backup software is capable of maintaing ACLs etc.


bj

2005-05-09, 7:45 am


Charles Morrall wrote:
> "Sun" <sfgroups@gmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
> news:1115390301.935449.26220@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
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>
> How about just restoring from backup to the new location, assuming

your
> backup software is capable of maintaing ACLs etc.



Try running multiple robocopy streams concurrently each working on
different sections of the data.

Sun

2005-05-09, 5:46 pm

currently pulling the data, next time will run multiple robocopy
concurrently.

Thanks

John Rigler

2005-06-03, 5:47 pm

We have had success with cutting up large files with dd or split and scping
them across the network in parallel, then recombining them on the other
side. cat piece1 piece2 piece3 > total If you do cksum on each side you
can be sure that you have reassembled
them correctly.

"Sun" <sfgroups@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1115644876.998537.128880@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> currently pulling the data, next time will run multiple robocopy
> concurrently.
>
> Thanks
>


John Rigler
Infrastructure Architect
Global Services - IBM
jrigler@us.ibm.com


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