RichCopy under the covers – File Migrations exposed!
I’m sure by now you’ve read my introduction to RichCopy– Introducing RichCopy – your Robocopy replacement! Well, today I spent some time doing speeds and feed tests over numerous protocols in my lab environment. I want to establish a disclaimer that this is no way a reflection of the ‘speed’ you will get, or not get respectively – More that the sheer differences between single threaded operation (re:xcopy, robocopy, rsync for windows) will be infinitely improved when using this tool! Oh, and I’ll also go into some of the cool depth you can cover!
I ran a number of very small file copies (<4k file size files) in the 15,000 to 90,000 file range and got the following results!
The specific items I want to call out here are – when doing a single threaded copy (such as the CIFS job which took 57:16 – well, frankly that is as close to a ‘robocopy’ or ‘xcopy’ we’d get and when you compare it to slightly increasing the number of simultaneous threads – OMFG look at the results! Cut down by a lot of the time! Imagine if that were your production data migration – Cutting that seriously by 1/6th or even more depending upon the workload! The same can be said if you have ‘changed’ data that it is looking to update only the changed blocks. So much potential! This particular host was a slooooow VM which can somewhat explain why in general it was slow. However the slowness is reflective across the board, so the 1/6th speed improvement is likely to be the same if not better in any other situation or circumstance!
I definitely encourage checking it out, as well as the numerous advanced features this tool offers.
These advanced features… I’m going to discuss in a few moments as well ;)
For those of you who are new to RichCopy – Honestly you can get by with the simplest of actions by simply modifying your thread numbers. But if you want to get into the special details of it, let me reveal to you a number of VERY cool functions and features. Oh and might I add, ADVANCED features that let you take it up a notch, not to mention the amazing HELP file too!
Starting with the mothership of all functions! The Advanced option! Which enables a whole series of new options enabled when you go to your File Copy options!
The Process Control lets you really dive down into some functions such as your cache sizes and more! Really quite cool. Though frankly as I jump to the “Others” section, one of the coolest features if the fact that when you modify your options in the GUI, you are presented with your CLI parameters!
Though don’t get me wrong, File Attributes, Error handling, inclusion and exclusions, FTP and other things themselves –are- quite cool!
Though hands down, the most important part of this tool is the fact that it EXISTS, it is FREE and it is fricking COOL! So, there’s no reason to sit idly by paying for SecureCopy, or watching your serial operations SLOWLY move by as you migrate data! Get out there, and play around with RichCopy today! It’ll make you wish you had this tool for the past 10 years like MS had!
