• You could do an uncompressed back-up/restore.

    Or do the data migration in SSIS itself so you can exploit parallellism to the max. (not sure how the copy database task uses parallellism).

    ps: since this is a sql 2012 forum, you would expect questions about 2012, nt 2005 😉

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