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    DrezhaDrezha
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      So it isn’t often I shout the praises of a software, but I’ve found Teracopy to be worthy of praise recently. Been using it for copying large amounts of data on to and off of an 8TB backup drive at work to different connected USB sticks and it’s been great, even verifying the copied files. Whilst I would normally use robocopy (or rsync on  Linux), these wouldn’t have been as suitable for this task, unless I scripted the copies from the very beginning (rather than go through the hard drive and add files as I found them). Ensuring that they were copied as well as good, as well as checking that they moved as I expected them to do.

       

      Think I’ll be purchasing a license as it’s proven it’s worth this week.

      "Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

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      Ed PEd P
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        I agree – unfortunately Windows now adds so many checks on ownership and other flags that copying takes ages to perform. It can get even worse if Windows gets its paws on a network share or even worse an alien Linux or Apple disk (even when just a fat32 directory is being copied) as it seems to delve down and check root ownerships etc. I’ve given up using Windows own utilities.

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