We've moved about 500G to the filer from our file servers using SecureCopy. Have you checked the port speed and duplex settings on your servers and switches and filer. We have found that if they don't match you will have excruciating performance.
-----Original Message----- From: Friedrich, Bernhard [mailto:Bernhard.Friedrich@med.uni-heidelberg.de] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 9:29 AM To: 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: Moving data from NT to NetApp painfully slow
Hi Toasters,
we're in the process of consolidating NT file services on a NetApp Filer. We have an F810 where we want to store all our user's data which is now spread across multiple servers, some of which are close to being maxed out. We now have the problem of moving all the data while we're still servicing our users - we're on 24/7 here. We found that copying the data to the filer is painfully slow; we're suspecting that NT ACLs might be the culprit. We've tried robocopy, secure copy and xxcopy to no avail - moving a small part of the total data took 15 hours. Anybody out there willing to share their experiences with moving several hundreds of GB across the network? We need to keep NT permissions, obviously. On the mailing list I saw references to Fastlane and Aelita's SCW - any experience with those or other 3rd party products?
Greetings and thanks in advance
Bernhard
-- Bernhard Friedrich ZIM Uniklinikum Heidelberg Unix/NT administration