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Sharepoint library to On-Premise Gateway with bad bandwith

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Posted on by 24

Good day legends, 


Issue: On-Premise gateway and local share is a moving object and its bandwith keeps dropping from time to time. 

How to handle flow run time and size?

 

What I want to do: 

Flow to move/copy/create files from Sharepoint Library to On-Premise local share. 

The flow is built with the "create file" and a gateway and it works great, but since the On-premise gateway and local share is a moving object the bandwith keeps dropping from time to time or the bandwith is extremly low


Questions:

  • Is there a way to increase the flow "running time?" 
  • Is there a size limit to the gateway? 
    • My tests have proven that I can send 6mb from Sharepoint to the Gateway,
    • If I test with a 12mb file the file gets transfered but only 6100kb (6mb) gets there

 

Please let me know your thoughts about this. 

 

br 
z

 

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  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    8,726 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    For any Power Platform tasks a gateway only needs one thing - a fast network card.  You can run a Power Platform gateway (and Direct Query in general)  on something as low as single processor and 4GB RAM.  but your NIC must be fast.  Anything under 10GBps will make itself felt.  

     

    Ok, some SSD storage doesn't hurt either. But it's secondary to the NIC speed.

     

    Your gateway should ideally be close to your on-premise data source.  General physics still apply when it comes to latency.

  • zwagsz Profile Picture
    24 on at

    Ok fully noted. 
    In regards to PA flows. Is there a way to handle timeout? Is there a way to handlle a timeout to "try again" after X amounts of time? 

     

    br 

  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    8,726 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    go to the settings of your flow actions.  Note there is a section for retries.

  • zwagsz Profile Picture
    24 on at

    Hi Ibendlin, 
    Thank you for this suggestion. 

    I'm running some tests on this atm. Will report back soon. 

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