Hi im working on replacing 2 folders on 400 ish remote win 7 pcs.

C:\Test C:\Final

they have started to get way bigger than needed as people dont cleanup after themselves.

they should be ~350 mb but most are atleast 1.5 gb

So it takes forever when replacing the folders for a user.

So i wanted to just Copy-item over to the remote pcs and let it replace everything from the backups i have.

But my concern is file corruption, So i know you can move zipped folders then unzip them but is that going to slow everything down to a point were its going to just be easier to copy-item then fix the ones that need it?

i plan to just: For Each IP, Delete folders,Copy Folders -Recurse

Am i overthinking this?

CodePudding user response：

i know you can move zipped folders then unzip them but is that going to slow everything down

No, it's going to speed everything up. Copying lots of small files will be hurt most by network round-trip latency, checking each file, getting each file permissions, opening each file, writing to it, closing each file, all that will take time.

Copy one zip file, make much more efficient use of the network sending a blob of data with no interruptions. [Make sure to get the remote computer to unzip it locally].