[AccessD] Constant copy interruptions

Jim,

This is really just getting the NAS populated.

I had all of my stuff archived on Windows Home Server.  I copied all of my stuff - Photos, videos, 
software source etc. off of WHS onto my SQL Server machine in order to free up the hardware that WHS 
was running on.  I build my UnRaid server (which I am pretty pleased with all in all) using the 
motherboard / memory and many of the disk drives from WHS.  Once it was running, I then started 
moving from the SQL Server over to UnRaid.

We are really talking about archive storage where you (mostly) write a file (a video or photo or...) 
and then just read it after that.  UnRaid is really geared towards archiving stuff.

I am using SyncToy to keep directories that are updated synced together, and it works great.

 > A friend has a little business on the side which he backs up various clients and using this 
principal it usually takes less than half an hour to backup even the largest data store, over the 
web and he has this process running nightly.

Ask your friend how long it took to get the initial movement done.

Additionally that is not what I am doing, or that is only part of what I am doing.  I have 3 
terabytes of ripped videos.  They had to move (twice) but once moved to UnRaid will only reside on 
the UnRaid NAS.  I have family photos, same deal.

Like that.

I will also be doing the backup thing and yea, a backup util is what I will be using there.

In the meantime, try moving 3 terabytes of data from Windows to not Windows using Windows Explorer 
and see how times Windows sends hateful "are you sure" kinds of messages, totally stopping all 
movement until you answer.  It is simply stupid if you ask me.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 11/1/2010 11:19 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi John:
>
> Just a simple question. Why are you doing a full backup all the time?
> Wouldn't a sync type backup be better after a full backup...as it only
> backups up any data changes since the last backup?
>
> A friend has a little business on the side which he backs up various clients
> and using this principal it usually takes less than half an hour to backup
> even the largest data store, over the web and he has this process running
> nightly.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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> Subject: [AccessD] Constant copy interruptions
>
> having created my UnRaid NAS, I am now moving stuff that I used to store on
> my expensive server off
> to the NAS.  The problem is that it is tens or even hundreds of gigabytes of
> files, and windows
> issues a constant stream of "are you sure" and "if you move this" and "there
> are properties that
> can't copy" etc.
>
> Moving a hundred gigabytes of files takes tens of hours, so I try to start
> it at night, only to come
> back in the morning to find that it only moved a few gigs before stopping to
> ask "are you sure".
>
> "Annoying" doesn't even come close to describing it.
>
> Does anyone know how to tell Windows Explorer to stop asking and just move
> what I ask it to move?