The Best Software To Copy Files

[jbl1167]

We copy a lot of files from our network to external hard drives. The regular Windows XP copy command takes too long. We had tried VB script and is somehow better but not perfect. Do you know of any software that can help us to copy large ammounts of data, keep a nice a log and you can trust on it. (It would be better if it is free or not too expensive, we are a goverment office and is tough to buy expensive utilities)

Thank you

 

[NFI]

Have a look at xcopy - you can do far more selective copying based on it. You'd still have to put together a vbs or cmd script to do your logging, though...

Paul

 

[fortunat]

try Cobian. It has a ton of features. I really like the ability to send an email at the end of the copy.

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

'Making things work better; bit by bit.'

 

[pcrequest]

Check out robocopy. It's command line, but also a GUI wrapper is available.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/11/UtilitySpotlight/default.aspx

I've had good luck with ntbackup.exe from the command line - a scheduled batch file. Examine the command line parameters in XP Help file: search for "ntbackup".