Rick
Wed Mar 03 10:57:34 CST 2004
You could try using robocopy. That's a cmd line based tool that's fairly
easy to use and has a lot less overhead. If the transfer is slowing the
network down neither robocopy or FTP will help that. With robocopy, you
could schedule it nightly to run using "Scheduled Task" and a bat file.
robocopy \\source\c$\bla \\destination\c$\blabla /MIR /R:0 /W:0
Using the /MIR option will overwrite file on the destination that don't
exist on the source.
robocopy.exe is part of the resource kit that you can D/L for Microsoft.
Youd could even do a Google search for it.
"ray" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have users that need to transfer data from workstation
> to server, the data is big roughly 200MB - 300MB at a
> time, at the moment they are copying to a network drive
> which is slowing everything down.
>
> What are the advantages of using ftp rather than copying
> the data, would this stop any performance issues we are
> having with the copying of files.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ray.
>
>