Comparing Two Drives
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I've been using Win Merge happily for file/directory compare. ;) give it the drives you want to compare and let it do the trick for ya! By the way you can filter the output list to show only diff or only in single drive ...
Yusuf
I recall using it in the past. Great tool. Found all the files causing the copy process to halt. Fortunately they are only student labs from a class I've taught at the local community college since Fall 2006.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Does anyone have a favorite program they like to use when comparing two drives? The situation I am in right now is that I've been copying files off my desktop machine onto a WD MyBook. Not all files have been getting copied over ( verifying this by checking how many files did get copied ). Why I am asking about a tool to compare the folders of two drives is so I can tell what file didn't get copied and which ones did? Constructive suggestions are appreciated :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Araxis Merge
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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Araxis Merge
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
That looks more like what I am looking for :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Does anyone have a favorite program they like to use when comparing two drives? The situation I am in right now is that I've been copying files off my desktop machine onto a WD MyBook. Not all files have been getting copied over ( verifying this by checking how many files did get copied ). Why I am asking about a tool to compare the folders of two drives is so I can tell what file didn't get copied and which ones did? Constructive suggestions are appreciated :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Araxis Merge has a great folder compare. It's not cheap though. [Edited] Dang! Christian beat me to it! :)
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Does anyone have a favorite program they like to use when comparing two drives? The situation I am in right now is that I've been copying files off my desktop machine onto a WD MyBook. Not all files have been getting copied over ( verifying this by checking how many files did get copied ). Why I am asking about a tool to compare the folders of two drives is so I can tell what file didn't get copied and which ones did? Constructive suggestions are appreciated :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Use Robocopy (in the Windows Server Resource Kit) to perform a sync and write the results to a logfile. Then, all you need to do is read the logfile. :)
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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Araxis Merge has a great folder compare. It's not cheap though. [Edited] Dang! Christian beat me to it! :)
Tom Delany wrote:
Christian beat me to it!
No worries, there's two of you guys suggesting it.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Use Robocopy (in the Windows Server Resource Kit) to perform a sync and write the results to a logfile. Then, all you need to do is read the logfile. :)
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
I'll look at that. Seems like about 99.5% of the copy/paste went through with the exception of a few folders that didn't work, and they do not contain critical data.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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I'll look at that. Seems like about 99.5% of the copy/paste went through with the exception of a few folders that didn't work, and they do not contain critical data.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Anytime. :) Robocopy is well worth taking the time to learn - it can mirror folders easily, won't abort if it can't read a file and supports incremental copying. Highly recommended. :rose:
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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Anytime. :) Robocopy is well worth taking the time to learn - it can mirror folders easily, won't abort if it can't read a file and supports incremental copying. Highly recommended. :rose:
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
Going to look at it this morning. I would like to have a near 100% mirror before I wipe the desktop machine.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Going to look at it this morning. I would like to have a near 100% mirror before I wipe the desktop machine.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Have fun! FWIW here's the command line I normally use for mirroring drives:
robocopy /s /r:3 /w:5 /mir
Mirror does what you'd expect - as well as adding files to the target which have been added to the source since the last run, it will also remove files from the target which have been deleted from the source.
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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Have fun! FWIW here's the command line I normally use for mirroring drives:
robocopy /s /r:3 /w:5 /mir
Mirror does what you'd expect - as well as adding files to the target which have been added to the source since the last run, it will also remove files from the target which have been deleted from the source.
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
Hey Anna, I am trying to go the /MIR route. It should fit the bill for what I need to do. PJC
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Hey Anna, I am trying to go the /MIR route. It should fit the bill for what I need to do. PJC
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Have fun. :)
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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Have fun. :)
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
Thanks. Just kind of turned for the worse. Have to do the mirroring over the wireless network. The desktop machine isn't incredibly fond of the WD My Book due to non USB 2.0 ports on it, and the two USB 2.0 it doesn't seem to get registered.
robocopy c: \\toshibalaptop\mybook /S /R: 0 /W: 0 /MIR
seems to be doing the trick.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Have fun. :)
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
How do I know it is actually writing something to the destination? Been running for 18 minutes now, and the My Book shows nothing. ---modified Never mind, I did
\toshibalaptop\mybookwhen it should be\\toshibalaptop\mybook:-O"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
modified on Saturday, August 9, 2008 3:15 PM
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How do I know it is actually writing something to the destination? Been running for 18 minutes now, and the My Book shows nothing. ---modified Never mind, I did
\toshibalaptop\mybookwhen it should be\\toshibalaptop\mybook:-O"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
modified on Saturday, August 9, 2008 3:15 PM
Are you by any chance running it against the folder set you previously copied? If so, it won't copy much at all - only the files that were missed the first time (assuming that they are no longer locked). If you get it to write a logfile as it goes you should be able to see exactly what it found, and which files were copied in a given session.
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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Are you by any chance running it against the folder set you previously copied? If so, it won't copy much at all - only the files that were missed the first time (assuming that they are no longer locked). If you get it to write a logfile as it goes you should be able to see exactly what it found, and which files were copied in a given session.
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
No, this is a fresh copy. Seems to be doing the job now ---modified Well, ended up killing the process over the network. I got desktop machine to finally see the My Book again. This time looks like the charm :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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No, this is a fresh copy. Seems to be doing the job now ---modified Well, ended up killing the process over the network. I got desktop machine to finally see the My Book again. This time looks like the charm :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
That's odd. What does the logfile say?
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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That's odd. What does the logfile say?
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
The logfile is currently 3MB in size and growing. Looks good from opening a copy of the logfile. It only complained about one file thus far, C:\hiberfil.sys, as being open. Sounds like some kind of hibernation file I can live without copying :rolleyes:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon