Re: Faster way to transfer files than native Windows file movement

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From: Skwerl (jusovsky_at_anotherretarded.com)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:33:06 -0800

Thanks for the suggestion, Andrue. I'm told the network between the machines
 can handle 250 megabytes (not bits) per second and is hardly used, let alone
anywhere near saturation. We can push about 60 gigs an hour now total, with
multiple concurrent operations. I'm sorry to hear that Explorer doesn't add
much overhead. It looks like this is just going to take a while.

Josh

"Andrue Cope" wrote:

> Skwerl wrote:
>
> > Is there software for
> > efficient transfer or some method for optimizing Windows file
> > movement that would help speed this process up?
>
> Explorer is not particularly innefficient in the first place. It pretty
> much transfers data as fast the hardware allows.
>
> My guess would be that the bottleneck is the network. This could result
> both machine's disks lying idle for some of the time. Try kicking off
> multiple concurrent copies. If you do that you might find each single
> copy is slower but the overall throughput (combining all copies) would
> be faster.
>
> IOW instead of a single copy transferring at 1GB a minute you might
> have two copies both transferring at 600MB a minute.
>

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