Use multiple robocopy jobs to copy the data over.  When we moved data this way 
I had about 9 robocopy jobs setup initially.  If you keep it in sync with /XO 
/E /MIR parameters afterwards it will only copy over the delta changes and 
remove files on the new that have been removed on the source.  We moved over 
3tb over a wan link doing it this way. 

The initial robocopy we let run over the weekend when not much else was going 
on, and I disabled the backup for the source client during the initial robocopy.

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Michael Leone
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 8:24 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Advice on migrating a large (2TB) AFTD storage node to 
new hardware

> 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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