Big Copies keep failing

[Don Carlile]

I always recommend SuperDuper. (http://www.shirt-pocket.com).  You  
can be sure you have a clean clone.  And if you pay the nominal fee,  
it will do incrementals for you.

Don Carlile

On Aug 3, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Hugh Evans wrote:

> I have a 1.5 TB HD with all my music, photos and videos on.... I am  
> trying  to back up the contents to another 1.5TB drive using the  
> Finder (10.4.10) ... but invariably I run into file errors (a file  
> cannot be read) or something and the copy process stops with a  
> warning dialog box - When I acknowledge the problem - the entire  
> copy process stops and I do not have a grasp on what has been and  
> what has not been copied....
>
> I would like to do a copy and if there is a file error or something  
> the copy program simply skips to the next file and continues...  
> some kind of feedback as to what files were skipped would be useful.
>
> Running Disk Warrior and Disk Tools does not seem to fix problem  
> files - indeed I can go to files that erred on the "big copy" and  
> copy them fine - one at a time.... so something strange is going on.
>
> So... I'm looking for a very forgiving "copy" program/utility -  
> even if its from the command line...
>
> Does anyone have suggestions....  having a copy fail many hours  
> into the process is very frustrating.
>
>
> Thanks for any advice
>
> hevans
>
>
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