Best Way to Transfer Large Files in Windows

Question

I often have to transfer large files >50GBs sometimes >100GBs between drives both internal and external during backups of our networks email servers. What is the best method of

Answer 1

I get asked this question every now and again and I always say the same thing. Microsoft Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). This is the same technology used to deliver large service packs and such to workstations. Some of the features:

• Network Throttling
• Asynchronous Transfers
• Auto-Resume
• Priority Levels for Downloads
• Proven Transfer Mechanism

For those not wanting to deal with the command line syntax you can explore wrapper applications, such as SharpBITS.NET, that provide a GUI interface.