Van, thank you so much for this clear and very helpful explanation.
I took a look at Cobian and read the FAQ. It seems a bit intimidating. Is it simple enough to use for a reasonably-savvy-but-no-tech-expert user, if you don't need some of the more advanced features?
Also, could you tell me the difference between using the program as a service verses a program?
Are you familiar with TeraCopy? It seems that Cobian is a more advanced program. Could I, for example, set Cobian to copy this 1 TB drive but break the job into start and stop times? In other words, could I set it to work on the copy between 11 pm and 7 am for a week or as long as it takes to complete?
If not, and the program runs in the background, does it take much resources? Would I have trouble doing other jobs in the meantime? (I work on a laptop running Windows Vista, with 4 GB RAM on a 32-bit system. My processor is an Intel Core Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26 GHz)
Thanks so much! I'm so grateful for the information!
Beth
--- In artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com, "G. Armour Van Horn" <vanhorn@...> wrote:
>
> Your file copy is going to run at the speed of your system, and if you
> need to copy a terabyte it's going to take a while. There are systems
> that copy files several times faster than Windows, but they also cost
> several hundred times what a Windows machine costs and are only of real
> interest when large fractions of a petabyte are involved. The only real
> solution is to not sit there while the files are copying.
>
> I am an "IT place", and though I have quite a bag of tricks for copying
> files, particularly from damaged disks, none of them is going to run any
> faster than the disk drives. It's not like tape replication where you
> can run cassettes through at 4x normal speed, disks run at whatever
> speed they were made to run at, there's no way to spin the platter
> faster and the heads couldn't write much faster anyway.
>
> I recommend Cobian Backup for this application. It's free and easily
> configured to maintain a mirror of whatever set of files you want. It
> doesn't spend time copying files that haven't changed, so updating the
> collection is pretty quick. As long as all target drives mount as the
> same drive letter, it doesn't care whether the target has all but one
> file already on it or none at all, although a copy to a new drive will
> take far longer.
> http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
> <http://www.educ.umu.se/%7Ecobian/cobianbackup.htm>
>
> Van
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