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To all the knowledgeable internet users, I seek advice on how to migrate a big data website to a new
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To all the knowledgeable internet users, I seek advice on how to migrate a big data website to a new

I currently have a website with about 2TB of data on a Windows server with an HDD, and I need to move it to another Windows server. My current method is to zip the data before transferring it, but the compression on the HDD is incredibly slow. It has taken me a week to compress just half of it. Therefore, I must seek help from knowledgeable internet users to find a more efficient way to migrate the site.

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  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    Windows server? Sorry, I'm out.

    Thanked by 1niranjan
  • RHCHostingRHCHosting Member, Host Rep

    Send us a ticket - our techs will be able to help out. What are you zipping it with?

  • FonteFonte Member

    @RHCHosting said:
    Send us a ticket - our techs will be able to help out. What are you zipping it with?

    7zip

  • HostDZireHostDZire Member, Patron Provider

    Can't transfer using ftp ?
    Create ftp account in 1st server then transfer file using filezilla client ?

    Thanked by 1niranjan
  • I suspect you could have transferred the 2TB of data uncompressed within a week, so if the disk is that slow then the compression probably isn't worth it

    Thanked by 1yoursunny
  • yoursunnyyoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

    Rclone works on Windows.

    1. rclone serve sftp
    2. rclone sync
  • I'd suggest Robocopy or Rclone

  • SGrafSGraf Member, Patron Provider

    @Fonte said:
    I currently have a website with about 2TB of data on a Windows server with an HDD, and I need to move it to another Windows server. My current method is to zip the data before transferring it, but the compression on the HDD is incredibly slow. It has taken me a week to compress just half of it. Therefore, I must seek help from knowledgeable internet users to find a more efficient way to migrate the site.

    At this rate, why not just do a direct transfer via ftp/sfp/....?

  • vsys_hostvsys_host Member, Patron Provider

    If you want to compress files during transfering to save some bandwidth, and if you are sure you content is good for compression (not media or archives), you can use rsync with compression via WSL.

  • @vsys_host said:
    If you want to compress files during transfering to save some bandwidth, and if you are sure you content is good for compression (not media or archives), you can use rsync with compression via WSL.

    My thoughts too. rsync is your best bet, OP.

    Thanked by 1vsys_host
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