Re: Movie server / large scale file copy

["Brougham Baker" <bro-yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "keyvan2r" <k1@xxxxxxx>
> Simple drag and drop copy of the folders from the NAS don't work well
due
> to the fact that when I leave the files to copy overnight I come back
to
> find that at some point the connection was dropped / interupted at
some
> point and the operation was terminated. No way of knowing what made it
to
> the server - not easily anyway.
> My question: is there a smarter / more bullet-proof way of doing this?

Over the years I've tried loads of stuff and everytime I come back to
robocopy for fileshare copies. By default it does infinate retries (not
actually the best- we use 5 normally) and if you restart it does a
date/size
compare to carry on from where it got to.

Bro




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