Answer by Isaac Butt for VHD network file transfer fails consistently at 4GB
After troubleshooting this for many hours (and trying all the suggestions posted here), the issue turned out to be the TLS link between our main office and the datacenter. I called our TLS provider and...
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This sounds like it might even be a permissions issue, when you try to copy the file to the network location it gets stopped or fails, perhaps you could try to create a network folder make it fully...
View ArticleAnswer by Joseph Kern for VHD network file transfer fails consistently at 4GB
Just a thought: Is the VHD in use by the hypervisor or mounted? It could be failing because part of the VHD is locked and unable to be read from the filesystem. This is why zipping the file works and...
View ArticleAnswer by Tonny for VHD network file transfer fails consistently at 4GB
Mmmmhhhh... I see the various answers above and I realize that I still can't tell if you really tried to copy with a 64-bit copy program. (xcopy, robocopy and most FTP clients are 32 bit, even on a 64...
View ArticleAnswer by Willy for VHD network file transfer fails consistently at 4GB
Searching google for large file network copy failures and you'll find some threads talking about similar issues but not just vhd's. This KB is usually linked to see if tweaking NIC settings help. TCP...
View ArticleAnswer by gWaldo for VHD network file transfer fails consistently at 4GB
Try Xcopy or Robocopy; at least one or both have a "resume" switch. Rsync may be of help, too. Out of curiosity, is one of the machines 32-bit, but the other is 64-bit? If so, can you try your copy...
View ArticleVHD network file transfer fails consistently at 4GB
This issue has been extremely frustrating for us: when transferring a large VHD (virtual hard disk) file from a Windows 7 machine over the network to a physical Windows Server 2008 machine at our...
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