advice for improving throughput

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Brian MXP

Howdy-

We're getting ready to bring a system online that will be transferring
roughly 4GB/2000 files chunks of data at different times during the day.
(files are ~ 1966Kb)

The connection is 1GB/Full Duplex & the file server to which the data is
being copied is not heavily loaded, but the test copy transfer rates
seem to be awfully slow.

Are there any good ways to improve throughput from the client side?

Client is Windows XP, SP2 w/pretty decent hardware specs...

TIA,
Brian
 
Use a utility like Robust File Copy (robocopy) - downloadable for free from
the Microsoft Download site. Standard drag and drop or command prompt file
copies are very inefficient.

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Richard said:
Use a utility like Robust File Copy (robocopy) - downloadable for free from
the Microsoft Download site. Standard drag and drop or command prompt file
copies are very inefficient.
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Okay, Richard - will do.

I didn't realize that there were also performance gains with robocopy;
I'd always looked at it from the administration/automation benefits...

Thanks,
Brian
 
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