I echo your question, here, Beth. By spring, I'll be needing to clone one of my external hard drives before I archive it off site. I hope we can find usable answers here.
--- In artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com, pixellle@... wrote:
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> All the discussion about online storage leads me to ask this question.
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> I use portable external hard drives for my photos. I've had redundancy copies, but now want to keep a copy off-site for extra security.
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> I have a 1 TB external drive that I'd like to copy or clone. (I use a PC.) But if I tried to do this with Windows Explorer and the Windows copy function, it would take me forever.
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> I started to research this, and found some "fast file-copying" software, including some freeware (specifically, TeraCopy). But it seems that although this is a smarter way to copy, it's not necessarily faster. Apparently, with this software, you can pause the copying process if you need to, and you can instruct the software to skip over problems instead of getting stuck at a dialog which waits for a response. That means you can more successfully walk away while it does the work. But the reviews seemed to say it didn't really work much faster.
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> Do I need to take my 1 TB drive to an IT place to have it copied? Is there any better way to do it myself, rather than breaking it into smaller chunks and taking weeks to get it done?
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> I'm betting there's a smarter way to do this that I just don't know about. If anyone has a suggestion, I'd really appreciate it.
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> Thanks!
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> Beth
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