Hi.

I'm planning to migrate a windows server full of data to a CIFS vol on my FAS3020. This volume will be snapmirrored to a remote filer over a 10Mb line.

The data is 300GB+, and its already a fairly busy line. Time to initialise a mirror is going to be over a week ( and i have to throttle during the day)

Moving the remote filer temporarily is not something I want to do.

I'm using Secure Copy (http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/securecopy/) to do the copying.

Is there anyway to bypass the complete 300GB snapmirror initialize? What is more palatable is:

1. copying data to a USB disk and transporting that to the remote site, copying over to the mirror destination vol. OR
2. Performing the secure copy twice - transporting the server (or its disks for use in another server) and copying directly to the mirror destination vol

Any ideas or am I  SOL?

thanks, Dave.

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