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I'll try doing it again, this time from a c:> prompt using xcopy. I think that it will be a long process, though, because if I recall correctly the copying is much slower, probably to do with RAM caching or something.

Or possibly because, unlike a decent backup program, it copies the files one at a time?


Copy and Xcopy are painfully slow for other reasons in addition to the fact that they do the job sequentially. I've been using XXCOPY for writing batch files that do drive-to-drive synchronization tasks and I'm quite happy with its speed and flexibility. I've also been known to use Beyond Compare sometimes solely for the purposes of doing drive-to-drive backup synchs.

I'm looking forward to trying out that Microsoft Sync Toy mentioned in this thread. I hadn't known about it until now.
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