Snap 4100 file copy

[Silverback]

I’ve inherited a couple of crusty snap 4100’s and am hoping to move data off of them onto a new fileserver. If they’re almost full what’s the fastest and easiest way of copying the data off of them. Is it possible to do preserving file permissions?

I’ve finished with one of them, and the problems that I ran into:
- Extremely slow no matter what I tried
- If connected over the network it just seemed to drop it’s connection every once in a while
- Connected directly to one of the Ethernet ports on the fileserver the connection seemed more stable but slow and after a few hours it lost it’s domain account cache and was no longer able to connect to it.
- Eventually I got all of the data copied off of it using an FTP client connecting to the internal FTP server, but that didn’t play nice with some sym links that were in some of the directory structure, and assorted other files/directories that had issues, as well as a random “that requires a ‘port’ command before…” which required a ton of manual intervention, the end result was that it took literally days to finish.

Suggestions? If FTP is my best choice, what FTP clients work better/faster? Unfortunately, the second box seems cruftier, is much more heavily used and the data can’t be offline as long so I need a better answer. We’ve even gone as far as taking the first box apart and tried to see if we could get the drives/raid (raid 5, no hot spare) to rebuild on another machine so we could quickly/easily copy it off onto another harddrive, without any success.

[blue68f100]

FTP works best but limit the symtiomus file to just less the 4. I like FileZilla, but I limit it to just 2 symontanious connections. Any more than that slows it down.

The max speed you will get is around 8Mbps.