Copying games across a network

[headkaze]

If you have ever copied large amounts of data over a wireless network using XP's standard copy in Windows Explorer you may have encountered a few issues. For example if your connection drops you can't continue and have to start again, or you get an error like path too long or whatever it's really annoying.

Now check out robocopy.exe (robust copy) is a handy util from the Windows Resource Kit that can not only copy faster and more reliably it can also only copy over newer files and retry if there is an error.

All you have to do is copy robocopy.exe into your Windows folder then make a simple batch file for copying over stuff. Then you can run it at any time and it will only copy over newer downloads.

Eg. Here's a simple batch example

@ECHO OFF
robocopy.exe /E /XO "\\Server\Download\Future Pinball" "E:\Temp\Future Pinball"
robocopy.exe /E /XO "\\Server\Download\Visual Pinball" "E:\Temp\Visual Pinball"

pause

Also I found a nice free program that includes a GUI for copying called "Unstoppable Copier". I'll attach both here for download

unstopcp.zip

robocopy.zip

[Tom Speirs]

You all may also want to try spesoft Backup, coded by me. Its designed perfectly for this.

I've been using Roboopy since 2000, and its one of the things that inspired me to write my own program.

It pretty much does everything robocopy does, accept it has a wizard style GUI that makes the whole thing simple.

http://www.spesoft.com/spesoftbackup.aspx

[Stu1983]

You all may also want to try spesoft Backup, coded by me. Its designed perfectly for this.

I've been using Roboopy since 2000, and its one of the things that inspired me to write my own program.

It pretty much does everything robocopy does, accept it has a wizard style GUI that makes the whole thing simple.

http://www.spesoft.com/spesoftbackup.aspx

I gave Spesoft Backup a go the other day, it was certainly nice, clean and easy to use but it was no good for my task as I need to MOVE rather than COPY my files... would this be easy to implement Tom?

Thanks

Stu