SyncToy 1.4 Upper Limits

[Guest]

I am trying to syncrhonize two folders. The problem is, there are 35 million
files in about 7 million directories (1.2TB). (So SyncToy overloads the RAM
(2GB) and crashes when trying to compare the two folders.

I was originally trying to do this with DFSR, but I couldn't get it to work
when both file systesm are on the same host.

The purpose of doing this is because I'm migrating from DAS SCSI Arrays to
SAN FC Arrays. (I'm actually running this on Win2k3 R2 Server, but this is
where all the SyncToy posts are, so here I am).

What are the recommended limitations for SyncToy? Is there a way to have it
utilize the features of DFSR and Indexing service to cut down on the amount
of RAM is taken up by the Analyzing?

Are there any tweaks I can do to get SyncToy to cache to disk instead of RAM?

Thanks in Advance,
--Hobbes

 

[Guest]

You could try using robocopy instead of synctoy. I'm using it to keep two
servers synced running a scheduled job once per day, and don't have any kind
of memory problems.
There are only two files you would need to find, robocopy.exe, and
roboex32.dll. I think these are in the windows\system32 directory on 2003 or
2000 server.

 

[LJB]

You could try using robocopy instead of synctoy. I'm using it to keep two
servers synced running a scheduled job once per day, and don't have any
kind
of memory problems.
There are only two files you would need to find, robocopy.exe, and
roboex32.dll. I think these are in the windows\system32 directory on 2003
or
2000 server.

Here is some documentation on Robocopy
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/160513
Its a free download included in Windows Server 2003 resource kit.