Software for bulk copying that verifies.

[OrangeLike]

Hi all,

I'm migrating onto a new machine, and need to copy a great deal (in both number and size) of critical files from my old hard drive to the new machine.

To do this, I'm looking for some kind of copying software that will do two things:

1) Verify by content after the copy to ensure that it's been done correctly.
2) Ignore (if told to) system files (desktop.ini and the like)

I'll be running the software on Windows 7.

Three things I've looked at:

Synchronize it!
Robocopy
Teracopy

Synchronize it! claims to do everything I'm asking for, but I don't know much about it's legitimacy.

Robocopy, from what I've read, can be hinky about reporting errors and doing checking after-the-fact in more recent versions of windows.

Teracopy seems to confirm, but I can't figure out how to make it exclude system files.

Any advice or alternatives?

Thanks in advance!

 

[VirtualLarry]

I generally use an XCOPY script (I forgot my extra parameters), and then use WinDiff to compare directories afterwards.

 

[Emulex]

teracopy has a CRC option. It calculates a hash and then verifies it - its not verifying the actual file iirc - but that's why you use a server with end to end ECC

j/k

does VERIFY ON still work?

 

[thewhat]

Another option is FastCopy.
Unlike TeraCopy it also lets you mirror/sync the destination folder (delete files that aren't in the source), but you can't select multiple source folders/files for one job. But you can still quickly save and load jobs, so no big deal.

Neither of those two let you select multiple destination paths for a single job, so that you can click once and do all the copying, like with Robocopy (if you make a script). But Robocopy can't verify.

I'm still looking for a freeware tool that will do all that.

 

[Snapshot1]

Try xxcopy, it is a console interface but it provides verify and exclude functions along with many others.

Snapshot1

 

[Monoman]

Allway Sync is my choice, I use to use synctoy 2.0 but it didn't support network UNC shares.