On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Chester Martin <cmartin AT spp DOT org> wrote:

> 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.


I believe the 2008r2/win7 version can multithread up to 32 threads.  I'm not
sure if this results in 32 distinct streams, but oh well.  Maybe Michael is
spindle-bound in his environment to begin with and the metadata/smb overhead
pushes him out of his allotted window.

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