Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Windows copy/archive utilities

I have played with a number of apps like Syncback and Robocopy for moving large file sets as backup or sync tools, and recently had some file corruption on a large file copy.

Robocopy does not do verification checksums (at least i didnt see the option).

If you are glued to command prompts, here is a good comparison of Robocopy and XXCopy which seems to show pros/cons, but xxcopy has verification:
http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy30.htm
One thing I like about xxcopy from the start (and its pointed out in the link) - they have 10 times the documentation of MS Robocopy.

OR also - Teracopy does do verifications - free and paid:
http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

or syncback - free and paid:
http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/sbse-features.html

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