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One copy tool that's not well known is RichCopy from Microsoft. It's a great copy util when dealing with huge amount of files. It supports parallel copy, resu
by ww520 15y ago
One copy tool that's not well known is RichCopy from Microsoft. It's a great copy util when dealing with huge amount of files. It supports parallel copy, resume from failed, and copy only changed files.
- Athtar 15y agoRichCopy is always one of the first tools I install on any of my machines. It's an amazingly powerful tool. About the only thing missing with RichCopy is integration with Explorer Shell.
- sliverstorm 15y agoSo Windows users finally don't have to install cygwin for rsync
- runjake 15y agoI suppose. If you didn't know about Robocopy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy) which has been around since the NT days. Rsync under Cygwin was always too slow. Any sort of significant I/O is slow under Cygwin.
- heresy 15y agoRobocopy, while useful, does not have very many of the features of rsync, apart from retries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
- RexRollman 15y agoTrue, Rsync has more features, but Robocopy is still a very useful tool. And it has been included in Windows since Vista.
- runjake 15y agoBut with all the problems of rsync and cygwin on Windows, Robocopy is the more logical choice for such tasks. I'm not going to load up explorer.exe in WINE on Linux so I can move some files around with the mouse.
- trezor 15y agoRsync in cygwin also (severely) messes up your files' and folders' NTFS-permissions when synching against a linux-host, which can lead to things like the meltdown of a complete IIS website/webserver setup since the IIS worker process can no longer access the files it needs. I've learnt the hard way that you dont use rsync in cygwin for anything remotely crucial ;)
- sjs 15y agoOh interesting! I'll have to take a look. Right now I use TeraCopy.