Re: DFS vs. Robocopy

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Hi Anthony,
From what I'm hearing, Robocopy is the better choice for me.
In fact, the files I'm talking about will never be changed, and will be
deleted after period of time.
They just have to be replicated in real time for DR purposes.
However, I'm still trying to find whether Robocopy supports
multithreading and how efficient it is compare to DFS.
I went through the Robocopy documentation and didn't find anything
about multithreading.

Thanks,

Krass


Anthony wrote:
For large files with small changes, bit-level replication is what you need,
with one of the replication products. Robocopy would be a bad idea unless
the files change rarely AND completely. Robocopy would be a disaster if you
have small changes and frequent copies. The new DFS could be good. Here's a
definition of how DFS replication works,
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/20ffb860-f802-455c-9ca2-5194f79a9eb41033.mspx?mfr=true
Anthony



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Hi there,
We need to replicate/mirror file storage location to remote site. The
files
are large (from 60MB to 1GB) and they are going to be transferred over WAN
link.
I have two questions.
First, what the better choice in our case, DFS or Robocopy?
Currently in or testing environment we are using Robocopy, however our
concern is whether Robocopy supports multithreading. So, here is my second
question.
Which approach (DFS or Robocopy) is more efficient when transferring large
files over WAN link.

Thanks




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