RichCopy

[valryte]

Last night I started to redo one of my servers because it keeps locking up. I've already replaced the memory and MB, tried other Video cards, CPU, etc...so now I'm just going to redo the OS. I know, trust me, it was cheaper to replace the parts than my time to redo this particular server. Plus I needed the extra parts for a new server Anyways, one of the things I needed to do was copy a bunch of files over to another server that I have. I had done this in the past so I had most of the files. I only wanted to copy the missing files. I've used Robocopy before, but I was looking for a GUI version, I ran into both a GUI version that uses RoboCopy and an improved version called RichCopy. It has all kinds of nice options and features, like multi-threading.

So if you need to copy files, but have various requirements beside a simple blind copy all, take a look at this tool. It's one of the Microsoft tech tools, so it's created by an employee, just like RoboCopy, except it really is better.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/maga ... px?pr=blog

[Aslanna]

Thanks. I've always used RoboCopy (and the gui frontend) but this looks like it could be useful.

[pyrella]

if it cost 4 figures, it would have paid for itself =P

We have a dept that copies 750k files in a single batch every day that take up around 400gig. The total size isn't that big of a deal, but the ability to copy 100+ at a time instead of sequentially is awesome. With up to 30-40% of the files not changing from day to day (but random) we've cut the transfer by a large amount, and made the network team happy.

[Winnow]

For less complex folder backups where you want to preserve data but don't want to mirror an entire drive, Second Copy:

http://www.rlslog.net/second-copy-v7013 ... ll-laxity/

[valryte]

Winnow, this isn't for backups. This is just for copying/moving large amounts of files which has nothing to do with backups.