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Hi

I have to copy large number of files from one server to another.
What is the fastest solution : nfs, samba or ftp ?

thx.

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Got it:
Bechmarks: SSH vs FTP vs CIFS vs NFS vs Samba

the technologies you mentioned are not really directly comparable. SMB can be used within local network only (unless it is encapsulated), it is not routable. So if you do it between different networks , it is not really an option. NFS can be very fast, but assuming that both your machines can use NFS. Also NFS will play along if you have static routes and do some trick with a traffic. However NFS will suffer on slow networking connections, for many reasons. Also NFS is UNIX/Linux world solution. Never heard of Windows on NFS (may be there are options but they are not a standard way of doing things). FTP is good for far-away connections, if network is fast, so it is fast, but it is the solution when you transfer between two different operating systems. You may like Amazon.com: learn linux networking: Software by UNIX Academy as it goes over things like that...

I hope it helps...