Efficient file movement - Faster than drag-and-drop Explorer movem

Skwerl

We just installed a new SAN from Sun and need to migrate several terrabytes
over to it from our Windows servers. We've found that drag-and-drop copying
files using Explorer is going to be very slow and I haven't found any
software designed specifically for the purpose of fast file movement. I
could whip up a simple .Net app to traverse a directory tree, moving each
file to the new drives one-by-one, but would this be any faster than native
Windows GUI file movement? Is there any method that I could use that would
be faster? Thanks for any suggestions, everyone.

Josh Usovsky

Nov 22 '05 #1

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Patrice

If not already doing the copy directly on the server (not on a workstation)
could likely be quicker.
I's likely that the bottleneck is just the network speed. Using .NET or the
command line prompt shouldn't make a great difference.

Just try to have the quicker possible path between the source server and the
SAN target... Copying terrabytes takes time...
Patrice

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We just installed a new SAN from Sun and need to migrate several terrabytes over to it from our Windows servers. We've found that drag-and-drop copying files using Explorer is going to be very slow and I haven't found any
software designed specifically for the purpose of fast file movement. I
could whip up a simple .Net app to traverse a directory tree, moving each
file to the new drives one-by-one, but would this be any faster than native Windows GUI file movement? Is there any method that I could use that would be faster? Thanks for any suggestions, everyone.

Josh Usovsky

Nov 22 '05 #2

Brian P. Hammer

You could download a 30 use full blown trial of peersync high volume server.
I think it is www.peersoftware.com. I use the licensed version to copy data
between limited bandwidth and intermittent connections. It works fantastic.
Can set up bandwidth and cpu throttling and many threads. It can be as easy
as clicking start to configuring many aspects. During some testing, the
program copied 22% faster then using drag and drop over a T1.

HTH,
Brian Hammer

"Skwerl" <ju******@anotherretarded.com> wrote in message
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We just installed a new SAN from Sun and need to migrate several
terrabytes
over to it from our Windows servers. We've found that drag-and-drop
copying
files using Explorer is going to be very slow and I haven't found any
software designed specifically for the purpose of fast file movement. I
could whip up a simple .Net app to traverse a directory tree, moving each
file to the new drives one-by-one, but would this be any faster than
native
Windows GUI file movement? Is there any method that I could use that
would
be faster? Thanks for any suggestions, everyone.

Josh Usovsky

Nov 22 '05 #3

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