By Philip Churchill on July 10th, 2007
Speed up File Transfer to your Shared Folders
You may notice that it can take quite a time to move/copy large amounts of data to the WHS shared folders. To speed up this file transfer process I use FastCopy from SHIROUZU Hiroaki.
To get the FastCopy utility to work you have to first map your shared folders to drive letters*.
Copying 9.12GB of files using copy and paste in Windows explorer took just under 37 minutes and with FastCopy the same data took just under 15 minutes. A huge difference! It has saved me many hours moving my 250GB of data to my Windows Home Server shared folders using this utility.
*Map a drive to a shared folder in Windows XP
*How to map a network drive in Windows Vista
Share this WHS Article with Others:
Are we sure that the faster copying isn’t bypassing the Home Server specifics which map D:\Shares to the Q-Storage-Manager?
(read as; Are you _sure_ this thing works in a WHS desktop?)
I was using a copying program before CTP, and all my data would have incorrect t/d stamps, and other problems.
Hi Ben,
As far as I can make out it is not interfering with the time/date stamps and I have not had any problems with it at all.
Why did I read this post only hours after I moved 250gb very slowly to my WHS?
I might install it before I move another external hard drive of stuff over
Hi markvader,
I know when I moved over my 128GB it took ages without this program!
For the record, I had some issues with this program. I was moving a folder between local drives and it kept creating the same folder in a folder in a folder (on the destination drive)… on and on until it was like 25 levels deep. I was unable to delete the tree of nested folders with Windows Explorer, but fortunately FastCopy deleted it and I stopped using it after that.
Hello, I am author of FastCopy.
>creating the same folder in a folder in a folder
I think that it is reparse point(mountpoint/junction/symlink) problem.
This is general problem in Vista.
You can reappear by robocopy(standard command) in Vista.
C:\> robocopy.exe “\users\All Users” \tmp /E
… “Application data” folder will be created in parent “Application data” folder endlessly until path length over MAX_PATH(260).
FastCopy v1.6x or under, it can’t understand reparse point, it copy as normal folder/file, and same behavior.
FastCopy v1.70 or later, it can understand reparse point, it copy/create reparse point as reparse point.
If you specify commandline option(/reparse=FALSE), it copy/create as normal folder/file.
Thanks,
Thanks for the info Shirouzu.
I copied a single file from my WHS to my USB external HD. No problem.
20mb/sec.
But when I try to copy the files from my WHS using a mapped network drive, I get the following errors:
WriteReparsePoint(File)(Onjuiste functie.1) : Y:\PUBLIC\DOWNLOADS\10.000.BC.RETAIL.DVDRip.XviD-NeDiVx\nedivx-bc10.nfo
WriteReparsePoint(File)(Onjuiste functie.1) : Y:\PUBLIC\DOWNLOADS\10.000.BC.RETAIL.DVDRip.XviD-NeDiVx\CD1\nedivx-bc10-a.r00
WriteReparsePoint(File)(Onjuiste functie.1) : Y:\PUBLIC\DOWNLOADS\10.000.BC.RETAIL.DVDRip.XviD-NeDiVx\CD1\nedivx-bc10-a.r01
nd when I try to copy them from my WHS through the “network envirement”, I get this error:
FindFirstFile(De syntaxis van de bestandsnaam, mapnaam of volumenaam is onjuist.123) : \\Storm\videos
what is causing this?
I don’t know WHS’s symlink behavior.
In Vista, creating symlink requires administrator privilege.
I think…
0. Confirm network drive (it supports junction/symlink?).
1. Use with administrator privilege.
2. Copy Junction/Symlink as Target file/folders. … changing “Copying Junction/Symlink’s child folders/files” checkbox(in settings dialog) to off.
(Sorry, this checkbox’s explanation is wrong. its correct explanation is “Copying Junction/Symlink as Junction/Symlink (not target folders/files)”)
Hi,
When using fastcopy with diff(newest) to backup files from whs to a NAS device I sometimes get this error:
“WriteRarsePoint(File)(The file or directory is not a reparse point.4390) : Z:\old-whs\shares\music\filename.m3u
Any idea what this is about? BTW thanks for the program!