It takes about one hour and half to copy across the network.

You don't mention how far apart the source and destination are, or whether they're attended by people (as opposed to running in a dark colo somewhere). If the servers are close, there's an option we often forget: use removable drives. It take considerably less than an hour and a half to copy 6Gb of data at IDE (or SCSI) speeds, remove the drive, and walk it across the room to the backup box.

Or, if the source and destination are far apart and "latency" isn't critical, shipping a removable drive via FedEx can still yield reasonable bandwidth.

It might be an option to consider.

In reply to Re: Copying a large file (6Gigs) across the network and deleting it at source location by dws
in thread Copying a large file (6Gigs) across the network and deleting it at source location by skyler

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