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Copying 200 GB Takes Forever and a Half
Tonight while applying Windows patches I wanted to make a backup of all our Vision servers so that I can install them on an ESX server in engineering and do a few test upgrades. The total size of all the VMs involved is about 200 GB. So far I’m pushing 3 hours copying all that stuff on the 2GB/s fibre-channel SAN.
I can’t wait to see how long it will take to copy all that stuff over the WAN from our colocation site to our corporate office. I should be ready to start testing in a week or so.
Categories: Virtualization
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a portable usb hard drive . . .
Yeah, those work great when your servers aren’t 300 kilometres away. Unfortunately my USB cable isn’t that long.
Depends on your WAN speed too I suppose. If it’s tin can and strings, sending a usb drive back and forth via courier might be faster even with the copy-to and copy-from usb times involved.