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How to transfer a 100gb file from Server 2003 to Server 2008?

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I am trying to transfer a 100 Gb file from Server 2003 to Server 2008. The 2008 box is 64 bit, 2003 is 32 bit if that matters.

File transfers quit after about 4 Gb. I installed an FTP server on the 2008 box and that gets about halfway but still fails repeatedly. I'm remoting into this office, I'm trying to avoid the 'plug in a detachable hard drive' solution.

I can compress the file some... but that takes 8 hours each way. The file transfer would only take 20 minutes... if it would work.

Can anyone offer advice?

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rindi

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sgray128

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Oh no, it's all NTFS. I haven't see FAT for 10 years...

These are default installations, the Server 2008 box that I'm copying to is new, with a default install.

rindi

Try using teamviewer, it has a file-transfer option. It's probably easier to do it via that than to troubleshoot your RDP connection. There is a version that doesn't require an installation. You just start the executable on both servers...:

http://teamviewer.com

sgray128

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k, I'll look at that. To be clear, though, I'm RDPed into the 2008 box and doing a file transfer from 2003 to 2008. The machines are local to each other and on a GB network.

rindi

You mean you can map one drive on one server to the other, and then copy from that to the mapped drive (or the other way round)?

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rindi

Maybe there are Quotas set?

sgray128

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Got it. Points awarded for being there to help... thanks.

I found the answer here...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/106167

I set IRPStackSize on both machines to 40hx and rebooted, the file transferred after that.