In Reply to: Music library backup transfer rate question posted by Goober58 on May 5, 2013 at 10:19:31:
There are lots of variables. System loads will affect transfer rates and most copy or backup programs do verification, so after the file is written, it's read from the backup and compared against a check sum of the original.
Other than USB 3.0 which is quite a bit faster, I don't see any way that's safe to speed it up. Music files are already compressed data and turning off verification isn't a great idea.
Once you have a copy though, it shouldn't take long at all to update the backup. I use a simple batch file as a scheduled task with xcopy:
xcopy M:\Music\*.* r:\Music\ /D /S /E /C /I /H /R /K /Y
I just ran it for grins and it took 2 minutes to compare my local USB drive over the network to my wife's system with another copy on a 1TB USB drive. If I'd added a few new CDs, it'd take another couple minutes per CD.
-Rod
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