Another program falls out of favor
Oct. 28th, 2009 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyI'd been using DSynchronize to mirror my directories for the last few months. However, yesterday I got a 1.5T drive to replace a 1T drive, which is destined to replace the 160 and 250G drives in the family machine, which are filling up.
I tried to use DSynchronize to copy the data from the 1T to the 1.5T. It did about 80 of the 950 gigabytes of data on that drive, and said "OK, done." I ran it multiple times and checked all the settings, and it happily maintained that the data had been all properly copied.
Anyway, now that I'm on Win 7, I have another option, which works very well; robocopy. It's a command line tool that ships with Vista and 7. I guess it was available to XP too with the resource kit, but I never realized that for some reason.
Anyway, I verified it this time and when it was done, both drives had exactly the same number of folders, files, and bytes used.
I tried to use DSynchronize to copy the data from the 1T to the 1.5T. It did about 80 of the 950 gigabytes of data on that drive, and said "OK, done." I ran it multiple times and checked all the settings, and it happily maintained that the data had been all properly copied.
Anyway, now that I'm on Win 7, I have another option, which works very well; robocopy. It's a command line tool that ships with Vista and 7. I guess it was available to XP too with the resource kit, but I never realized that for some reason.
Anyway, I verified it this time and when it was done, both drives had exactly the same number of folders, files, and bytes used.
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Date: 2009-10-28 07:41 pm (UTC)