Frequent copying of large number of folders & files

I asked this over in the xpmusic group also but thought I might improve my
chances by putting it here as well.

I regularly copy my music files to a second internal hard drive and also to a
removable Lacie. The exercise consists of a folder with a hundred or so sub
folders containing 9,000+mp3 files. Is there any way to copy only those
files which aren't already on the two backup drives? Or do I just have to
wear the 90 minutes it takes for each one to copy each file?
thanks for helping.
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Shenan
Fri May 23 03:29:13 PDT 2008

Hoges in WA wrote:
> I asked this over in the xpmusic group also but thought I might
> improve my chances by putting it here as well.
>
> I regularly copy my music files to a second internal hard drive and
> also to a removable Lacie. The exercise consists of a folder with
> a hundred or so sub folders containing 9,000+mp3 files. Is there
> any way to copy only those files which aren't already on the two
> backup drives? Or do I just have to wear the 90 minutes it takes
> for each one to copy each file?
> thanks for helping.

Synchronization software... There are many of these.

One Microsoft put out was SyncToy...

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Malke
Fri May 23 05:01:21 PDT 2008

Hoges in WA wrote:

> I asked this over in the xpmusic group also but thought I might improve my
> chances by putting it here as well.
>
> I regularly copy my music files to a second internal hard drive and also
> to a
> removable Lacie. The exercise consists of a folder with a hundred or so
> sub
> folders containing 9,000+mp3 files. Is there any way to copy only those
> files which aren't already on the two backup drives? Or do I just have to
> wear the 90 minutes it takes for each one to copy each file?
> thanks for helping.

I really like Second Copy backup from www.centered.com ($29.95) which will
do exactly what you want and much more. I don't work for them but I've used
their program for clients for many years with great results.

Recently, a tech friend of mine told me about a program called SyncBack five
stars which he heard was excellent and free, but I haven't used it yet so
YMMV.

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DL
Fri May 23 06:56:48 PDT 2008

I've used Backer, for some time

"Hoges in WA" <thogan2zz@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:47265AF0-54F8-496A-9458-D2CC3118A393@microsoft.com...
>I asked this over in the xpmusic group also but thought I might improve my
> chances by putting it here as well.
>
> I regularly copy my music files to a second internal hard drive and also
> to a
> removable Lacie. The exercise consists of a folder with a hundred or so
> sub
> folders containing 9,000+mp3 files. Is there any way to copy only those
> files which aren't already on the two backup drives? Or do I just have to
> wear the 90 minutes it takes for each one to copy each file?
> thanks for helping.
> --
> Hoges in WA
>

Twayne
Fri May 23 08:19:45 PDT 2008

> I asked this over in the xpmusic group also but thought I might
> improve my chances by putting it here as well.
>
> I regularly copy my music files to a second internal hard drive and
> also to a removable Lacie. The exercise consists of a folder with a
> hundred or so sub folders containing 9,000+mp3 files. Is there any
> way to copy only those files which aren't already on the two backup
> drives? Or do I just have to wear the 90 minutes it takes for each
> one to copy each file?
> thanks for helping.

Possible solutions:
- xcopy with flags
- xxcopy (not part of XP)
- Briefcase
- backup or ntbackup
- Copy-clear archive; next time, copy only those with archive set, clear
again after copy, etc.. Sort of Attrib to get archives together in the
list.

And so on, depending on what fits you best. Briefcase or backups work
the best & easiest IMO.

HTH

Twayne

Don
Fri May 23 04:27:29 PDT 2008

"Hoges in WA" <thogan2zz@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:47265AF0-54F8-496A-9458-D2CC3118A393@microsoft.com...

> I regularly copy my music files to a second internal hard drive and also
to a
> removable Lacie. The exercise consists of a folder with a hundred or so
sub
> folders containing 9,000+mp3 files. Is there any way to copy only those
> files which aren't already on the two backup drives?

The utility free from www.xxcopy.com has this function.

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(Ottawa, Canada)

Shenan
Fri May 23 10:52:20 PDT 2008

Hoges in WA wrote:
> I regularly copy my music files to a second internal hard drive
> and also to a removable Lacie. The exercise consists of a folder
> with a hundred or so sub folders containing 9,000+mp3 files. Is
> there any way to copy only those files which aren't already on the
> two backup drives?

Don Phillipson wrote:
> The utility free from www.xxcopy.com has this function.

So does the built in xcopy. ;-)

(/D could be used to only copy files that are newer than the destination's
file if it exists - if it doesn't exist, it *is* newer)

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mike
Fri May 23 12:35:49 PDT 2008

Hoges in WA wrote:
> I asked this over in the xpmusic group also but thought I might improve my
> chances by putting it here as well.
>
> I regularly copy my music files to a second internal hard drive and also to a
> removable Lacie. The exercise consists of a folder with a hundred or so sub
> folders containing 9,000+mp3 files. Is there any way to copy only those
> files which aren't already on the two backup drives? Or do I just have to
> wear the 90 minutes it takes for each one to copy each file?
> thanks for helping.
Totalcommander can do this.
Once you try Totalcommander, you'll ditch MS explorer and never look back.

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