Well, depends. Somewhere around 2.5 - 3M files in a copy..nmdpcopy blows up.
:-----Original Message----- :From: Mark D Fowle [mailto:Fowle_Mark_D@CAT.com] :Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 5:00 AM :To: Aleksandr.Rainchik :Cc: toasters :Subject: Re: Huge one-time data transfer from UNIX to NetApp : : :You could try using NDMPCopy. : :Mark Fowle :Caterpillar/BCP : : : : : :Aleksandr.Rainchik@amermsx.med.ge.com on 04/07/2000 07:53:00 AM : :To: toasters@mathworks.com@INTERNET :cc: (bcc: Mark D. Fowle/0V/Caterpillar) :Subject: Huge one-time data transfer from UNIX to NetApp :Retain Until: 05/07/2000 Retention Category: G90 - :Information and : Reports : :Hi! : :I have a question: what should be the best way to transfer 20-25Gb of :data :(lot's of small files) from UNIX to NetApp? : :Can I do ufsdump on UNIX, pipe it trough rsh to NetApp and do restore :there? : :Thank you. : : :