Copy Files to USB

[bigjohnuk]

Hi

Could you advise the best way to control a copy of about 750GB of data of about 2.5 million files to a USB Drive.

We need to ensure that we do not miss any and if the job stops for what ever reason, we can quickly pick it.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper! can help you with that, though the external HDD needs to be formatted with Mac OS Extended (HFS+) to work.

 

[maflynn]

I'd go with Carbon Copy Cloner, for its ease of use. For a free manual option there's rsync which is executed through the terminal

I'd also look at at zipping them into a series of files, 2.5million file seems to be a lot files

 

[bigjohnuk]

Hi

Many thanks thanks guys. Yes 2.5 million is a large number, which is why we need something good.

Kind regards

John

 

[nigelbb]

I use Folder Synch from the App Store for this kind of thing. I believe that it is just a GUI over rsync mentioned earlier but the important thing is that it will ensure that the contents of the target directory is identical to the source directory.