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Cinchoo / ChoEazyCopy

Simple and powerful RoboCopy GUI
MIT License
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Can ChoEazyCopy connect to a remote instance of robocopy ? #40

Open sviscapi opened 2 years ago

sviscapi commented 2 years ago

Dear @Cinchoo developers ,

I'm looking for an efficient way to copy huge volumes (tens to several hundreds of GB) of data locally on a remote server (SMB shares) from a Windows host. So far we have used the Windows Explorer to do that, resulting in long transfer times, because it appears the files are first copied from the remote server to the local Windows host, and then from that host back to the remote server. Even though both source and destination are on that remote server, it somehow has to transit through the Windows host initiating that copy...

I've been told Robocopy could be used to speed up that process, and it looks like ChoEazyCopy is a nice (open source and well maintained) GUI for that tool :) I'm just wondering whether ChoEazyCopy can connect to a remote instance of robocopy, or do the GUI and the CLI commands have to be on the same host ? Would we have to resort to using some kind of RDP from the Windows local machines to control ChoEazyCopy / Robocopy on the remote server ?

Best regards,

Samuel

Cinchoo commented 2 years ago

check this out! https://superuser.com/questions/1361215/how-to-efficiently-transfer-large-files-between-two-remote-locations-on-same-ser

this may shed some light for your needs.