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Transfer data safely to another drive


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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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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

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ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows :: Version XP010

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Started : Fri Sep 02 05:28:20 2011

Source : v:\

Dest : c:\test\

Files : test.iso

Options : /COPY:DAT /R:1000000 /W:30

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1 v:\

100% New File 699.4 m test.iso

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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

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