Question What backup software should be used for large amounts of media backup do to problems?

[4freedomssake]

Hi I'm doing a backup of roughly 8 to 900 gigabytes of photography and videography in order to add much larger drives.

When backing up the first 200 gigabytes of media I started to notice that's some of the photos would lose quality and distortions were even added. EXIF data would start to become ridiculously wrong. Like shutter speeds and etc.

When I started backing up these types of media, I only hit copy and paste to external USB-C SSD’s. The drives are name brand Samsung SSD. So I know that is not the culprit. Should a particular software program be used so that this does not continue to happen?

 

[Ralston18]

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

PSU: make, model, wattage, age, condition (original to build, new, refurbished, used)?

Disk drives: make, model, capacity, how full?

External USB drives: enclosures? Make, model?

Add a short explanation of the copy/paste procedure that you are currently using.

Even though the name brand may be Samsung that does not automatically exclude the drives as potential culprits. They could be defective in some manner or even counterfeit.

My thought is that all starts well and then something starts heating up and the remaining data gets corrupted. Only a thought at this time.....

Consider that there are different types of backups: full, differential, incremental. You may not need to always back up everything, everytime.

Macrium Reflect may be a viable software program to use.

But more needs to be known.

 

[Lafong]

Can't think of any reason offhand why that would occur.

Do you get the same results if you drag and drop instead of copy and paste?

Do you get the same results if doing a backup test to a random internal location, not through USB?

I would not make any assumptions based on the drive brand.

 

[dwd999]

Your copy and paste technique moves the data to clipboard memory before pasting so it may be getting corrupted there. Drag and drop copying is always preferred. You may need to hold the Ctrl key to just copy rather than moving the files.

 

[Grobe]

First - Assuming you did an actual file copy (i.e. not some weird wonder-app mentioned in some home-computer-magazine that need to be paid to get full version) - then it sounds like you've got issue with data corruption.

Now - in order to dig any deeper, - like already mention the hardware specs must be known - but also any history of errors and other problems in the past (maybe the root cause is pretty obvious after all).

Since little information is known yet, some common causes of this issue may be

• Use of unsafe software or methods for copying (i.e. a move operation between physical disks without any backup - oh what a horror - you know, like seeing actors running straight into obvious traps in horror movies - don't do that).
• Bad ram sticks (yes it can cause file corruptions as well)
• Bad HDD/SSD, or sata cables or sata controller - but you should be noticed by now the OS should have found issues to your storage device(s).

 

[4freedomssake]

Backup success:

I was it bit hesitant of dragging and dropping large contents of media from my PC to my external hard drive. So I copied and pasted quite a bit of media (10GB) on to another hard drive in my computer. Then made sure with Adobe Bridge that none of those files where corrupted in any way. That is what I used to just drag and drop the media to the external hard drive. No signs of photography or video distortions were seen or detected with the EXIF data

So my assumption is that you can only copy so many files on the clipboard and then paste them somewhere else before the ones and zeroes start going haywire!

As always my fellow forum members, I greatly appreciate your input.