I'm just mirroring nearly 1M backup files (900GB) from old 1TB external HD to new 2TB with Sync/Mirror-command from a folder comparision of the old HD against an empty folder on the new HD.
The estimated duration was about 20 hours due to USB transfer speed.
I've about 8 hours to go and saw 18K files in folders already processed by the sync were not copied.
I copied them manually for now within the existing folder comparision while sync is running and it was ok.
1. question: Why aren't all files copied? Is it recommended to use folder sync instead to get more reliability or have I been hasty because the sequence of the copied files isn't the order as shown in the folder comparision (sorted by name)? I noticed that two different folders are mirrored at the same time (using dual core CPU?) and copying seems to be processed from the last subfolder backwards to the first.
Memory usage is above 1GB (of 8GB physical memory).
FAQ:
2. question: Is there a limitation of memory usage (4GB) and what memory usage has been at the successful test of 2x2.5M files?
Greetings Lutz
The estimated duration was about 20 hours due to USB transfer speed.
I've about 8 hours to go and saw 18K files in folders already processed by the sync were not copied.
I copied them manually for now within the existing folder comparision while sync is running and it was ok.
1. question: Why aren't all files copied? Is it recommended to use folder sync instead to get more reliability or have I been hasty because the sequence of the copied files isn't the order as shown in the folder comparision (sorted by name)? I noticed that two different folders are mirrored at the same time (using dual core CPU?) and copying seems to be processed from the last subfolder backwards to the first.
Memory usage is above 1GB (of 8GB physical memory).
FAQ:
Folder Compare
Folder Compare capacity is limited by the number of files being compared. The largest comparison we've successfully completed was 2.5 million files on each side. For larger numbers of files BC3 will run out of memory.
Folder Compare capacity is limited by the number of files being compared. The largest comparison we've successfully completed was 2.5 million files on each side. For larger numbers of files BC3 will run out of memory.
Greetings Lutz
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