Transferring (Large) Files Using BITs

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Tony — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:03:12 GMT

The JAMS Job Scheduler includes PowerShell cmdlets for doing secure FTP Transfers. It makes error handling simple and manage transfers across platforms.

re: Transferring (Large) Files Using BITs

Ashley McGlone — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:48:50 GMT

I have posted an updated, robust BITS PowerShell example on my blog here:

blogs.technet.com/.../big-downloads-with-powershell.aspx

re: Transferring (Large) Files Using BITs

Wilson — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:34:32 GMT

Great post, but I'm in the same boat as Seth G. 180GB File seems to get about 1/10th the transfer speed on BITS vs SMB 2.0. I would've thought the -PRIORITY foreground would let BITS go all the way, but it doesn't.

Looks like BITS compensates too much. Any thoughts?

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Seth G — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:41:49 GMT

Wish that bits had an option for unbuffered copy operations. As it is this is virtually useless for moving truly large (> 4 or 5 GB) files.

Unfortunately the classic buffered/unbuffered I/O problem strikes again when using this. Its a shame because I like the resumability, hash check at end, etc that bits provides. But I'm writing a utility to move large backup files around (4 up to 100+ GB) on a backplane and this simply won't cut it. For now I'm going to have to go back to Eseutil or maybe Msoft's RichCopy and call those from power shell. :(

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unisol — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:25:05 GMT

I see it doesn't currently support downloading from FTP sites. is there any plans to include FTP transfers too?

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Ryan S — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:54:28 GMT

This is great! However, it would be nice if I could do it remotely. I run a lab with 30 computers and we regularly push large files out from a server to all the machines. Unfortunately, BITS for some reason (probably security) does not work when remotely invoking commands.

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Steven Alexander — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:29:02 GMT

Yeah .. I saw this information somewhere :) Thank you.

Taking advantage of the message.

My application use BITS ... and I use the SetNotifyCmdLine when it runs ok http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa362988(VS.85).aspx.

Is there any way to do this in commandlets? If I understood right the start-bitstransfer accepts just files to be downloaded or uploaded. Is that right? How can I indicate to run an EXE if the transmission was ok?

Regards

Steven Alexander

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PoshFan — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:57:48 GMT

The module has been renamed, FileTransfer is now BitsTransfer

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Steven Alexander — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:59:31 GMT

Query: I am using the windows 7 (build 7100 .. RC). I cannot import the module there. I thought it was coming with the latest Powershell ... will Win7 include this module?

When I download the CTP 3 and install in a Vista (because I cannot uninstall in Win 7) it works.

Tks in advance

Best

re: Transferring (Large) Files Using BITs

Dajo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:36:25 GMT

It seems you cannot download files using BITS from an IIS website which requires client certificates? Downloading over SSL with the server ignoring client certificates works fine but not when client certificates are required. Is this true?