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Moving 6tb of data

  • 30-12-2019 06:26PM
    #1
    robfowler78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Not sure if this is the right place or not but looking for some help. I'm trying to move 6tb of data from one external drive to another. I don't want to copy and paste as I find sometimes the files don't copy over fully or it times out.

    I have seagate toolkit but that only let's me back up the full C drive not the external drive. I tried paragon but that leaves it in a format that needs paragon to open it. I just want the files to copy over as they are and to be aple to open the files on any PC.

    If anyone has a good reliable way to do this in one go Id really appreciate the help.

    Thanks
    Rob


Comments

  • #2
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,122 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Xcopy at the command line, robocopy could also do it


  • #3
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 16,086 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    L1011 wrote: »
    Xcopy at the command line, robocopy could also do it

    Robocopy will often be a bit faster and more flexible. If the destination folder is blank the /MIR option would be a good choice otherwise /E. e.g. from a command prompt ROBOCOPY <Source folder> <Destination folder> /MIR

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  • #4
    robfowler78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭robfowler78


    L1011 wrote: »
    Xcopy at the command line, robocopy could also do it

    Thanks I'll take alook I'm not great at command line stuff wS hoping for a program type but I'll try anything lol.

    Thanks again


  • #5
    robfowler78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭robfowler78


    smacl wrote: »
    Robocopy will often be a bit faster and more flexible. If the destination folder is blank the /MIR option would be a good choice otherwise /E. e.g. from a command prompt ROBOCOPY <Source folder> <Destination folder> /MIR

    Would this give me an exact copy of the source drive as in all folders and names be the same if I connect the destination drive to another Pc when copy is complete. Some of the files are used for my plex server so trying to keep the structures the same.


  • #6
    Lu Tze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,523 ✭✭✭Lu Tze


    I've used a bootable version of Gparted previously to clone drives, should be a video of how it works online. Not exactly a fancy gui with it though!

    Acronis true image does it as well if you want to buy a product that will do it in a few clicks


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  • #7
    robfowler78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭robfowler78


    Lu Tze wrote: »
    I've used a bootable version of Gparted previously to clone drives, should be a video of how it works online. Not exactly a fancy gui with it though!

    Acronis true image does it as well if you want to buy a product that will do it in a few clicks

    Thanks I've tried robocopy seems to be working fingers crossed


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