File copy software with a twist.

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Good day,

I've been using TeraCopy for a while and it is great, much better than the default windows one at least.

But i'm in need of something even better, if it exists at all.

I've got quite a large amount of files that needs to be moved from my home PC to a WD Cloud device.
The problem i've got is that since it is such a huge amount of data it will take months for it to complete over my slow connection (not via internet)

is there a program out there where I can select what needs to be copied but it won't stop when I need to shut down the PC.

Basically I want a scheduler that copies when I start the PC in the morning and resumes when I start it again the next day. I realize that by doing it this way it will take much longer as it will copy for 8 hours instead of 24. but time is not much of an issue.

Using Teracopy it does give the option that you can resume that copying later if you cancelled it but that is too lenghty as I have to select what I want and copy again and again and again everyday till its done.

If something exists that can start the copy and keeps it going after shutdown and startup it would be great.

My other option is to just hibernate everyday, not something i would want to do for months on end.
 
OP seems to give very little detail about his situation,

Should he be filling up a 4TB WD cloud it will take:

37 Days via 10Mb/s

7 days Via USB 2.0

3 days Via 100Mb/s (LAN)

9 Hours Via 1Gb/s (LAN)

There is no way it will take him "months" to fill a 4TB drive on a local connection.
 
Though he is not keen on the idea OP should leave the machine running 24 x 7 until all the files are copied.
 
Rickster said:
OP seems to give very little detail about his situation,

Should he be filling up a 4TB WD cloud it will take:

37 Days via 10Mb/s

7 days Via USB 2.0

3 days Via 100Mb/s (LAN)

9 Hours Via 1Gb/s (LAN)

There is no way it will take him "months" to fill a 4TB drive on a local connection.
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Appologies. Let me try and clarify.

My home and work is quite close together, but not quite so close that both could be covered in a single wifi cloud.
From my home PC to WD MyCloud it looks something like this:
PC - Over Wifi - TP Link - Network cable - Nano Station - Over Wifi - TP Link Range Extender - Network Cable - WD MyCloud.

I do not have a Gigabit network and it is much too expensive to replace all of that in order to get it.

Speed varies. But on average I would say it is around 450kbps. I never get more than 550kbps and more often than not it is less than 400kbps.
So copying 2.8TB @450kbps would take 72 days.
But as I would prefer NOT to leave my PC on for the next 72 days and let it copy only between 9 and 5, it will likely take 216 days.
But as I'm not working 7 days a week and leaves early on saturdays it will be 45 hours instead of the 56 hours a week that it can copy.

So that all works out to 268.8 days / 38.4 weeks / as close as makes no difference to 9 months.
Please let me know if there is anything else I was unclear about.
 
Deadmanza said:
That is nothing...
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To you perhaps.

I have 14TB in total, but the 2.8 is the only data I would consider VITAL to backup at the moment.
and no, not vital enough for me to leave PC on for 72 days.
 
Thank you all for the recommendations. I will try each program till I get one that can do what I need it to do.

But i'm thinking I should just buy a USB3 1TB external hard drive and use that, then use an incremintal backupper to just copy the files that is new in that folder.

It would literally shave months off of the time required.
 
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