# Best way to duplicate drives between workgroup **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [July 31, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957 "2012-07-31T06:34:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/1 "2012-07-31T06:34:47Z")
I just bought a 2TB drive for my fiancee’s computer. What I want to do is continuously copy my music from my 2TB drive to her 2TB drive over my network. I want the folder and file structure to stay the same, so I can’t backup to a single file like a “.bckp” file for example. The original 750+GB transfer I’m going to throw in my case (hot swap bays FTW) and transfer the bulk that way. I’m always adding to my collection so I’ll need to sync those changes to her computer. Just trying to think of the best way to schedule a transfer. Possibly something like SyncToy? I’d also be willing to make a “off site” backup for Speeders pending you provide the storage and give me the time to do it. ---
**Author:** ![TradersBASE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tradersbase/32/5321_2.png) [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/2 "2012-07-31T06:43:31Z")
In. Might be giving you a drive soon. I’ve used a batch script in the past to duplicate but that was 2 internal drives in same tower. I’m just going to get a nas box I think…run raid and make it low power web accessible. ---
**Author:** ![97FormulaWS-6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/97formulaws-6/32/7384_2.png) [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/3 "2012-07-31T06:44:07Z")
Why not just do a NAS - Network Attached Storage setup in a Raid 0? Would be a lot easier and more reliable. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 6:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/4 "2012-07-31T06:53:36Z")
> [@97FormulaWS-6](#): > > Why not just do a NAS - Network Attached Storage setup in a Raid 0? Would be a lot easier and more reliable. True, that might be after the wedding, I’ve been looking into that. I already ordered the 2TB drive though. ---
**Author:** ![97FormulaWS-6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/97formulaws-6/32/7384_2.png) [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/5 "2012-07-31T06:57:27Z")
> [@ProgRocker](#): > > True, that might be after the wedding, I’ve been looking into that. > > I already ordered the 2TB drive though. So use that 2TB in the NAS for now, then add a second for the Raid 0 when you can. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/6 "2012-07-31T06:58:13Z")
Rsync for windows? ---
**Author:** ![TradersBASE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tradersbase/32/5321_2.png) [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 6:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/7 "2012-07-31T06:59:42Z")
[http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108095](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108095) My friend has this and it’s pretty slick. My concern/issue with mirrored raid has always been if the NAS chassis dies you can’t just pull a drive and readily have your data. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 7:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/8 "2012-07-31T07:11:19Z")
Use robocopy in a batch file and schedule it to run once a day via windows task scheduler. [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145(v=ws.10)](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145(v=ws.10)) Make sure wake on lan is enabled on the destination PC and make sure you check the option to wake the computer from sleep in the scheduled task settings on the source PC. ---
**Author:** ![evane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@evane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/evane)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/9 "2012-08-01T07:31:52Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > Use robocopy in a batch file and schedule it to run once a day via windows task scheduler. > > [Robocopy | Microsoft Learn](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145(v=ws.10)) > > Make sure wake on lan is enabled on the destination PC and make sure you check the option to wake the computer from sleep in the scheduled task settings on the source PC. This probably would be your best native windows tool, beyond that rsync/rdiff-backup would be best which I am pretty sure there are native win32 binaries for both. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 7:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/10 "2012-08-01T07:48:47Z")
Hmm never used robocopy (I know, I know). Looks like from my brief test that it will work. Now to setup scheduling… ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 8:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/11 "2012-08-01T08:02:56Z")
Hell xcopy is built into windows and you could schedule a task. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 8:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/12 "2012-08-01T08:03:52Z")
Yeah, not the prettiest of ways, just wanted to see what options there were. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 8:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/13 "2012-08-01T08:13:08Z")
Doesn’t need to be sexy if it works lol ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/14 "2012-08-02T17:15:11Z")
Beginning to transfer via SATA, everything afterwords I’ll try out Robocopy with. ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/Thorguitarist/33a9bdec.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/Thorguitarist/33a9bdec.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/15 "2012-08-02T17:25:32Z")
I’ve always used a free program called Karen’s Replicator for this. Super easy, has built in scheduling, lots of options, and can sync two way if you want. Use it to keep my music consistent on 3 PC’s. ---
**Author:** ![itsJim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@itsJim](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/itsJim)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/16 "2012-08-02T19:19:12Z")
Teracopy is ok but i’m pretty sure it doesn’t do what you’re looking for. For example if you move a file, the computer your copying to will have two copies. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/17 "2012-08-02T19:33:31Z")
No teracopy replaces the default Windows copy/paste. I have both music drives in my local machine now to do the initial 770GB transfer. Tomorrow I’ll put it in my fiancee’s machine. ---
**Author:** ![itsJim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@itsJim](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/itsJim)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 6:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/18 "2012-08-04T06:33:35Z")
You misunderstand what I’m saying but if you wanted copy/paste functionality why bother posting? ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 8:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/19 "2012-08-04T08:05:15Z")
Right now I have it set to do a: robocopy source destination _._ /MIR /LOG:Logfile.txt This copies all files and the folder structure. It also does a purge or delete if any deletions take place on the source. It’s a scheduled task to run at 10pm ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957/20 "2012-08-27T10:27:27Z")
Bump…Doing Robocopy on my local network now…works fine. NOW, things will get tricky. Gus and I want to be able to sync the drives back and forth, obviously from remote locations. Speed shouldn’t be a factor since this will be incremental. Any songs added on my drive should be synced to his, and vice versa. I’d like this to occur with almost no interaction if possible. Any ideas? [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-way-to-duplicate-drives-between-workgroup/224957.md?page=2)