Windows is a bundle of both CLI and GUI tools. We use the GUI ones more because they serve a broader use case and are convenient to use. For file copying and moving, I hadn't ventured much outside the ...

We've set up a new SAN device and are moving our user data to this device, generally one user at a time. We always have used Robocopy to preserve all the ACLs of the files and folders being moved, but ...

But with SMB 2.1 and the new version of Robocopy, full multithreaded operation is supported and we should therefore see better performance in these scenarios. So where does that leave those of us who ...

I'm trying to figure out how to speed up my Robocopy file copies. My network is two Windows 10 PCs with Gigabit network cards, connected via a Gigabit switch. I've run the tests (A., B., C.) below.

Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration ...