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Copy data in sequential order? 2016-08-09 11:43:06 Post No. 170035
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I want to transfer someone data to his mobile drive (shows with 5-10gb each).
I can only initiate the tranfer, then we will spend the day outside.
In this time, I want to transfer as much data as possible. But, some is more important than others, some comes from different source hard drives, and I can't just risk copying in parallel and having none of it completed in the end.
Is there a way to copy several folders in a specific sequential order?
Some sort of queue in which I can choose which folders to copy first?
Also, not a must, but it would be great if I could copy some from drive 1, some from drive 2, then some from drive 1 again without having to copy them in parallel.
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>>170039
Thank you for your reply.
So using symbolic links will finish copying one folder first before starting to copy the next?
Great!
Like I said, I have to initiate it all at once.
I can not start another copy every 10 minutes, I will be out and ~150gb have to be copied when I'm back. This looks like a good solution.
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>>170091
Yeah. Just put everything you want to copy in the same folder as symbolic links, then copy that whole entire folder.
Symbolic links don't take up space, because they're not really a copy: they're just pointers to the file that's already there.
Make sure when you do your big copy it actually is copying and not just making more links (you'll know it's done this if the entire copy takes five minutes). In Windows, I think, if you symlink whole directories then explorer copies the files in them, but if you symlink files, then explorer just makes more symlinks. So only symlink directories like "Whatever - Season Whatever", and you should be golden.
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