Solution for copying large amounts of data (3TB+)in Windows?

[dissemble2discover]

Hello,

I have relied on the program Teracopy for some years now copying drive contents to another drive to have a 1:1 file-level duplicate as a backup.

Lately, I have been running into trouble using Teracopy for copying my now 3TB archive over from my main drive to the same backup drive i used for my 1TB backup.

Halfway into the Teracopy copying process, I get a memory error that causes the app to halt and refuse to copy any more contents over. I have 16GB of RAM available and my system drive has 50GB of free space if a cache is being used. When the memory error happens with Teracopy, I had 6GB RAM in use.


I guess my question is, does anyone know of a file-copy tool that is as reliable as Teracopy or perhaps better to copy 3TB of data without the system returning an error halfway? File-level copying software that can be run within Windows (not a cloning software)?

 

[thor220]

Disk migration software is designed to copy large amounts of date, so that should be your first choice. Otherwise, teracopy is the only file copy replacer for windows that I know of. You might have to try a full blown explorer suite in order to get their copy features. Directory Opus and such.

 

[kunthakenthe]

You could use a ram disk to transfer large amounts of data super fast. Theres plenty of good back up software out thier.

 

[dissemble2discover]

Disk migration software is designed to copy large amounts of date, so that should be your first choice. Otherwise, teracopy is the only file copy replacer for windows that I know of. You might have to try a full blown explorer suite in order to get their copy features. Directory Opus and such.

Would Directory Opus support copying long-path names by default?

 

[thor220]

Disk migration software is designed to copy large amounts of date, so that should be your first choice. Otherwise, teracopy is the only file copy replacer for windows that I know of. You might have to try a full blown explorer suite in order to get their copy features. Directory Opus and such.

Would Directory Opus support copying long-path names by default?

You have to have the feature enabled on your operating system. By default, windows does but I know many people disable it to increase speed. If you do though then yes, it will work.

 

[thor220]

You could use a ram disk to transfer large amounts of data super fast. Theres plenty of good back up software out thier.

You have to copy the data over to the ram disk in small pieces though. It would be very tiresome to keep copying 8 GB out of 3 TB. The data has to go from the disk drive to the ram disk to the new hard drive.

 

[kunthakenthe]

You could use a ram disk to transfer large amounts of data super fast. Theres plenty of good back up software out thier.

You have to copy the data over to the ram disk in small pieces though. It would be very tiresome to keep copying 8 GB out of 3 TB. The data has to go from the disk drive to the ram disk to the new hard drive.

yeah i realized what i said didnt make sense for transfering 3tb of data.

 

[thor220]

You could use a ram disk to transfer large amounts of data super fast. Theres plenty of good back up software out thier.

You have to copy the data over to the ram disk in small pieces though. It would be very tiresome to keep copying 8 GB out of 3 TB. The data has to go from the disk drive to the ram disk to the new hard drive.

yeah i realized what i said didnt make sense for transfering 3tb of data.

Making mistakes is what makes us human. Helping each other fix those mistakes helps us rise above that.

 

[kunthakenthe]

You could use a ram disk to transfer large amounts of data super fast. Theres plenty of good back up software out thier.

You have to copy the data over to the ram disk in small pieces though. It would be very tiresome to keep copying 8 GB out of 3 TB. The data has to go from the disk drive to the ram disk to the new hard drive.

yeah i realized what i said didnt make sense for transfering 3tb of data.

Making mistakes is what makes us human. Helping each other fix those mistakes helps us rise above that.

that...that was deep.😀

 

[dissemble2discover]

You could use a ram disk to transfer large amounts of data super fast. Theres plenty of good back up software out thier.

You have to copy the data over to the ram disk in small pieces though. It would be very tiresome to keep copying 8 GB out of 3 TB. The data has to go from the disk drive to the ram disk to the new hard drive.

yeah i realized what i said didnt make sense for transfering 3tb of data.

Making mistakes is what makes us human. Helping each other fix those mistakes helps us rise above that.

that...that was deep.😀

Yes. Yes it was.

And that's what makes a community so great =).

Also, Directory Opus did the trick! No crashes midway of my backup copy job =D.

Thanks you guys!

 

[thor220]

You could use a ram disk to transfer large amounts of data super fast. Theres plenty of good back up software out thier.

You have to copy the data over to the ram disk in small pieces though. It would be very tiresome to keep copying 8 GB out of 3 TB. The data has to go from the disk drive to the ram disk to the new hard drive.

yeah i realized what i said didnt make sense for transfering 3tb of data.

Making mistakes is what makes us human. Helping each other fix those mistakes helps us rise above that.

that...that was deep.😀

Yes. Yes it was.

And that's what makes a community so great =).

Also, Directory Opus did the trick! No crashes midway of my backup copy job =D.

Thanks you guys!

Awesome! Never thought that the time I spent messing around with Directory Opus would come in handy. Glad to see the issue fixed!