The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Lob- on 2025-04-09 22:43:23.
Forgive me for being a complete newb in this area. I recently got a bigger NVME drive and want to transfer the data on it to the new drive. It's not much data and it's nothing terribly important, in this case my Steam library which totals to 1.5 TB. I'm also inquiring because I do intend to backup/copy family photos/videos later on down the road and want to make sure it's done so safely without corruption or loss.
I see many different recommendations ranging from robocopy, teracopy, fastcopy, freefilesync. I narrowed down the software that interested me.
The programs that I'm looking into so far are robocopy, fastcopy, and freefilesync. Fastcopy and freefilesync seems pretty straight foward but if there is anything I should know about those programs before hand I would very much appreciate any tips.
As for robocopy, this is a bit intimidating as it doesn't include a GUI. I did see people talk about choeazycopy but read some people recommend against it cause it causes slow downs? Not sure how accurate that is... let me know if that's just misinformation. In regards to using it via cmd line, what would be the perfect setting I could use (basically copy & paste someone's setting) for the stuff mentioned above? ex. Copying data to another drive without deleting destination drive or Mirroring a drive if I intend to upgrade the storage size.
Appreciate any advice!