Are there any caveats to comparing a large amount of folders/files using BC3? Has it been done?
I have a client that is doing a data migration from a NAS to a SAN and I was wondering if BC would be a good way to confirm the data had been properly copied.
They have about 5 terabytes worth of data made up of many folders of proprietary images.
Each folder is the day the images were taken.
Some Samples from over 1400 folders in the root folder:
20050630 - 2,893 files / 373 MB / 169 folders
20060818 - 14,850 files / 2.79 GB / 772 folders
20070619 - 15,970 files / 4.08 GB / 973 folders
20070626 - 19,080 files / 4.98 GB / 1,074 folders
20071130 - 17,677 files / 4.38 GB / 935 folders
20100303 - 18197 files / 5.99 GB / 1,547 folders
The actual copy process is out of my hands and I have heard RichCopy was being used.
Now, I would probably say a binary comparison would be out of the question because of the length of time it would take to do such of an operation.
I was thinking a standard date/time & size comparison would do.
Thank you,
Kurt
I have a client that is doing a data migration from a NAS to a SAN and I was wondering if BC would be a good way to confirm the data had been properly copied.
They have about 5 terabytes worth of data made up of many folders of proprietary images.
Each folder is the day the images were taken.
Some Samples from over 1400 folders in the root folder:
20050630 - 2,893 files / 373 MB / 169 folders
20060818 - 14,850 files / 2.79 GB / 772 folders
20070619 - 15,970 files / 4.08 GB / 973 folders
20070626 - 19,080 files / 4.98 GB / 1,074 folders
20071130 - 17,677 files / 4.38 GB / 935 folders
20100303 - 18197 files / 5.99 GB / 1,547 folders
The actual copy process is out of my hands and I have heard RichCopy was being used.
Now, I would probably say a binary comparison would be out of the question because of the length of time it would take to do such of an operation.
I was thinking a standard date/time & size comparison would do.
Thank you,
Kurt
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