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Backup Multiple Drives to New Single Drive?

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o0moonman0o

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Hi guys, just trying to see if there is a better way to do this other than to click and drag from my old drives to new drive.

I currently have two internal 1TB HDD and I'm about to take delivery of a new internal 4TB HDD. My end goal is to have all my raw photo files located on the two 1TB drives moved to the single 4TB drive so I can take them offline and store them. Is there any better way to do this operation? I would need to be able to view the individual files after the move (as opposed to do an image of both and save the image to the new drive).

I just tried dragging a 40GB folder from one drive to another and it took quite a while...
 
I'd use xcopy in a batch file to perform an incremental backup, and use Task Scheduler to run it at a certain time each day.

cmd.exe /k xcopy /c /e /f /h /i /m /s /v /y /z "source" "destination"

I'm using Task Scheduler on my work computer with Windows Backup to back up my OS Drive (160GB) and my SSD (120GB) to a third physical drive (1TB) but I cannot access individual files (like you said you need to do)

You could also use Power Shell in Task Scheduler to copy any file(s) with a modified or created date to your backup location.
 
If it's a one time deal, I'd just drag and drop. I've never seen any speed increases from 3rd party software (teracopy, robocopy). They include features, but it won't go any faster.

Use SATA connections if possible, don't do it over USB.
 
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