> It's been our experience that even using robocopy to move 200+G from one 

> direct attached disk shelf to another direct attached disk shelf took 
like 
> 7 hours. (that was on a different file server, at one of our remote 
sites) 
> Our experience is that using robocopy between servers is slower than 
using 
> Networker.

Sorry; that was 500G in 7 hours, between locally attached storage on one 
server. Which also required some manual intervention, according to my 
co-worker who did it. Some of the folders had such goofy permissions, that 
he had to seize ownership of the folder, before he could re-start the 
copy. NW won't have that problem.

And transferring across the LAN from one server to another is bound to be 
slower than transferring between locally attached storage.

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