Question : Copy 10GB

Hello

What is the best and the fastest way to copy 10GB over a network. (From a Windows 2000 Server to a Windows 2000 Server) ?
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Answer : Copy 10GB

the fastest way: buy and install two 10 Gbps ethernet cards on the two computers, do copy with your familiar methods such as to drag and drop by using winndows explorer... just kidding but it is true if you can. ;-))

the best way: without changing any hardware and operating system, agreed with both arjanh and stevenlewis. personally, i prefer robocopy. quoted the following from windows 2000 RK:

"RoboCopy is a 32-bit Windows command-line application that simplifies the task of maintaining an identical copy of a folder tree in multiple locations, either on the same computer or in separate network locations. RoboCopy can provide time-efficient maintenance of mirror images of large folder trees on network servers separated by slow or unreliable wide area networks (WANs) links.

RoboCopy is robust: it retries after network errors. By copying only changed files, it saves a lot of time. RoboCopy is flexible: you can copy a single folder or walk a directory tree specifying multiple file names and wildcard characters for source files."

hope it helps,
bbao