I just don’t get it
Last Friday night I bought a 2T network drive. I installed the thing (woohoo, real difficult. Plug it in, then plug it in, then figure out it’s IP.)
I have a directory tree on my machine where I keep backups and imports from other machines. No applications use it. It’s just dead storage. This means it’s safe to copy. In total the thing isn’t more than 26gig.
So I mounted the network drive and did this:
“mkdir import”
“cd import”
“xcopy c:\import\*.* . /S /E /D”
And it kept stalling after a couple hours. I found a directory that was named funny (the network drive is a linux thingie, so there are some warbles in what you can name files) and I nuked them and continued.
Nuthin’. Well… same thing. At some point it would just thrash and not do anything.
I switched to synctoy as a goof. Just said “copy c:\import to y:\import using ‘contribute’” so the thing would just continually acrete.
This copy job has been running for two days and the progress bar says it’s about 10% done.
What the hell could possibly be going on? It’s sure not network or hardware bound. I copied the whole thing to a usb device in relatively short order (a couple hours while I was using the machine heavily) so I just don’t get it.
Synctoy? The drive?
/stumped
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