Best Way to Back up Music Library

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(01-06-2015 20:41)gnomus Wrote:  As per the question above. What is the best method of copying a large (1.3TB) music library to a new NAS?

At the moment, I use Teracopy (the non-"Pro" - ie free - version) to transfer new CD rips to my NAS and back-up hard disks. I have purchased a new NAS and have tried using Teracopy to back up the entire library to the new machine. I have run into some difficulties. For example, I have just had a problem where Teracopy seemed to "hang" for a minute or so. It got going again but, after it finished the copying of a large folder, I got a message telling me that one of the files could not be copied, and was skipped (The message is: "The specified network name is no longer available").

I checked what the state of play was on the new NAS. In fact, the suspect file did exist on the new NAS, but it had a file size of 0 Kb. I am now concerned that there may be a number of such files dotted throughout the folders that I have copied to the new NAS. Is there a way of determining if the files that have been copied to the new NAS are identical to those coming from the parent disk?

Is there a better way of copying my library to the new NAS?

Thanks in anticipation.

FWIW, I use GoodSync (both PC and Mac versions) to sync copies of my libraries to different places.

Also, for your primary music storage, use an intelligent array that supports background scrubbing to avoid silent corruption of data (i.e. "bit-rot"). I personally use a Drobo, but there are others.

Just my $0.02...