Neo003 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 I have about 600+ GB of steam folder that needs to be backed up to another drive before anything bad happens. Any idea on how to do that without putting too much stress on the system and drives itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ShareShiz Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 well. copy the files.. DONT cut and paste. best to just do it while your asleep at night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 capr Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 the only stress would be maybe if it all got too hot, what you can do is go into the steam folder and breakup the work into two different copy sessions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Prophecy Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Robo copy? or something like that if you dont want to clone the drive. Id prolly just clone the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +BudMan MVC Posted September 2, 2011 MVC Share Posted September 2, 2011 I would just do a robocopy, hope the drives are attached to same system directly and not just a usb (slow) drive or Gig network, shouldn't have to do it overnight or anything if on gig network.. Few hours is all its should take with decent drives and gig network. Unless your talking 100's of thousands of tiny little files it shouldn't really take that long. example - here is quick test of moving 700MB, over gig network.. Do the math at say even 50MBps your only talking like 3 hours something. C:\test>robocopy v:\ c:\test test.iso ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows :: Version XP010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Started : Fri Sep 02 05:28:20 2011 Source : v:\ Dest : c:\test\ Files : test.iso Options : /COPY:DAT /R:1000000 /W:30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 v:\ 100% New File 699.4 m test.iso ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras Dirs : 1 0 1 0 0 0 Files : 1 1 0 0 0 0 Bytes : 699.44 m 699.44 m 0 0 0 0 Times : 0:00:13 0:00:13 0:00:00 0:00:00 Speed : 53142491 Bytes/sec. Speed : 3040.837 MegaBytes/min. Ended : Fri Sep 02 05:28:33 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I have about 600+ GB of steam folder that needs to be backed up to another drive before anything bad happens. Any idea on how to do that without putting too much stress on the system and drives itself.
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