Can you compress the file and then copy it?  If it is an SQL .bak file
it may well compress a lot.
 
What filesystem is that of the USB device?

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 31 January 2011 14:31
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Copying large file



I am trying to copy a 67Gb .bak file from a USB drive to a SAS Raid-5
drive and I get an error after like 2 hours saying I couldn't copy the
file???

OS: 

Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP2

Memory: 

4096 MB

Processor: 

8 * Intel Pentium III Xeon processor

 

I have read a copy of KB's but they were just saying to take SP1...Well
I am on SP2???

 

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