Hi,
I have two servers one of which I'm migrating over to, both windows 2008, what would be the best option to transfer gigabtyes of videos, music, files, basically well between 30 - 100gb of files? FAST too, without waiting and only hitting small percentage?
You cannot copy them physically (i.e. by moving a hard drive) because you do not have physical access to the servers.
You cannot copy the files down to your home or office computer and then back up to the new server because this will take days with a 100GB. (Most domestic and small business connections are designed for downloading, not uploading).
You need to transfer the files over the network directly from Server A (origin) to Server B (destination).
To do this, you could - if the servers were on the same domain / aware of each other - just copy the files across. Even by mapping a network drive. But I'm going to
guess (because you have
not told us enough about how these servers are set up) that they are not.
Therefore you should use SFTP to transfer the files from A to B. SFTP is a program, but it is a low-level one. Usually you use a friendlier program that sits on top of SFTP.
(Well I don't, but I think you should).
Therefore, assuming that you have some sort of remote desktop (good hosting companies provide often this), you should install such a program. My recommendation is FileZilla:
http://filezilla-project.org/
This program uses SFTP to transfer files between computers. You will want to install the client program on one server and POSSIBLY the server version on the other. It does
not matter which way around you do this for
your purposes. I said "possibly" about the server side because it's quite possible your servers already have everything they need to do this. I would install FileZilla client on one of the servers, attempt to set up a connection to the other one by entering its details (IP address, username, password, etc.) and seeing if you can connect.
If the above all works, then you should see two windows representing the two servers, and you can drag files between the two and see the progress as they transfer. As your data is already compressed (i.e. movies and music), this is as fast as you will get. If it's not fast enough, you're out of luck.
Hope this helps. And next time you need advice - provide MORE INFORMATION!
H.