<div dir="ltr"><div>No, I have people who insist on using Robocopy because "That's parallel and must be faster". Also, no rsync on Windows :(</div><div>For large transfers we actually still use sneaker-net, it may or may not be faster but it's easier to get approval.</div><div>Although you still have to get the data <i>on to</i> the discs, which brings me to this fascinating article:</div><div><a href="http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/HOWTO_move_data.html">http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/HOWTO_move_data.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Which method is faster? Well it all depends....<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 19:40, Martin via Nottingham <<a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 05/06/2019 10:04, J J via Nottingham wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/parsync/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/parsync/</a><br>
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> Interesting. No more hand-rolled, janky scripts for me!<br>
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What?! You have such big stuff and InfiniBand links?!!! Great fun! :-)<br>
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Yep, that looks good for multi-GBytes or silly number of files use cases<br>
over even just Gbit links.<br>
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Should we use John as a 'test case'? ;-)<br>
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Good interesting find thanks,<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Martin<br>
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