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My machines all run SSDs and 1GB network connections. I can move massive VHDs over the network very quickly. However, I am not able to move 128GBs worth of smaller files from one machine to another quickly at all.
Are there features built within Windows 10/Server 2012 that can be used other then doing a drag and drop approach?
I was looking under the features that you can install and there are some file moving related options but are they of any benefit to me?
I even checked network traffic and there is no saturation or load on the machines to cause this slow effect of 20/kbs.
EDIT: Due to the amount of files and the locations that they all came from, linux, mac, ect... some of the file names have characters in them that prevent the files from being sent to a zip file and stopping the whole process. Is there a way around that?
1Processing large number of small files can be a pain regardless of OS. One approach is to create a large one-file archive that can be moved relatively quickly. In Linux I would
tar
(andgzip
maybe) andssh
in a pipe. This skips saving the archive as a file – an obvious pain with total size of 128 GB. Unfortunately I don't know similar Windows solution. Maybe with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows you could utilize the Linux approach. – Kamil Maciorowski – 2017-01-05T16:45:50.4071Yes, SAMBA is the protocol Windows uses for network files and it is very inefficient. Zip the files with 7Zip and copy them. It will be faster even with the extra step. Or move them onto MicroSD cards and transfer that way. If you are an expert, you can set up a SFTP server and use WinSCP, or install Unison. – Chloe – 2017-01-06T02:09:04.680