Moving large amounts of data over my network

philjayj · 22 Feb 2008 at 23:13

Hi

I am just looking for some advice on the best way to copy 200GB+ of data from one machine to another over my network.

Would creating a shared drive and copying it that way be any good?

Thanks

Phil

HEADRAT · 22 Feb 2008 at 23:14

Sounds like a plan

philjayj · 22 Feb 2008 at 23:21

Headrat, thanks for the quick reply.

I use EMC Retrospect at the minute to copy the data, but trying to copy this amount causes it to crash. EMC verifies the data after copying it - would copying it over a shared drive be any different?

HEADRAT · 22 Feb 2008 at 23:30

You could always use SYNCTOY, just drag and drop, it will be fine!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...54-C975-4814-9649-CCE41AF06EB7&displaylang=en

I regularly transfer 6GB files with drag and drop with no problems at all, the amount of data isn't really a problem.

bigredshark · 22 Feb 2008 at 23:59

far better with robocopy (or fastcopy even, horrible interface aside) than drag and drop or anything like that.

philjayj · 23 Feb 2008 at 10:16

Bigredshark, do you have a link to fastcopy? I've googled it, but there are quite a few. Thanks

quackers · 23 Feb 2008 at 13:01

could you not copy it onto a external hd and move it that way?

morfmedia · 23 Feb 2008 at 16:47

Robocopy is quickest way for smaller stuff. I recently used Securecopy to copy over 2.1TB in one go and several colleagues have used it to move 1TB+ across the LAN

philjayj · 24 Feb 2008 at 01:54

I've tried using ViceVersa Pro to move 200GB of data from machine A to machine B, via a network drive.

About an hour or so into the job, machine B loses its connection with A and the mapped drive cant connect to the other machine. I have to reboot both machines and re-establish the network drive.

The data copying is going fine, up until the connection times out. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks

philjayj · 24 Feb 2008 at 03:33

morfmedia, I have two server licences for the latest version of Secure Copy, but when I try to copy data from one server to another (via a shared drive), I get a message about it not being part of a qualified domain.

Do you know what this means and how I can fix it?