REplacement for Windows File Copy

I'm about to reformat my laptop, and need to copy all the files from it over to my server. I'm not needing a exact copy, so any system files that are in use and can't copy are no big deal for me.

However, if you have ever tried to copy a ton of files, and you start it and walk away, you know what a pain in the rump it is to come back in a few hours to see a message on the screen telling you it couldn't copy a file, and as soon as you hit OK, it stops dead....

Well I did a search before, and found a utility called FileBoss, which will let you do a copy, and it will automatically continue on errors, very nice utility. http://www.theutilityfactory.com/ it is $50 for the program, but comes with a trial period.

Well as nice as it is, I don't have the constant need for all of it's extras to justify the $50 (if I did it would be well worth the money)

So I did a little more diggin' (er I guess should say googlin') and came across a program called Terra Copy, which for the basic home use is FREE (Gotta love that), which is also supposed to recover on errors. http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

I'm using it now as we speak to copy about 30g worth of files over to my server. It has a pretty straightforward interface, and can be used to be your default explorer copy function. It does a better than windows Status bar, not only for the whole process, but for each file, and will give you a list of all the files it copies.

One nice thing I'm looking forward to in the morning, when all files are copied, it looks like in "full mode", the window stays open, and you can then click on TEST to have it go down and do a CRC check of all the files copied. Sweet.

Anyhow just wanted to share these utilities with you.

-Greg

PS. Ok, while typing this, my wireless connection dropped out (yeah, I should have plugged in for this....) The program reported the error that it couldn't write the destination, and then just sat there. The connection was restored, still sitting there. It appears either to have a long wait time before trying again, or a write error isn't automatically recovered... I need to go to bed soon, so I chose SKIP for now, as when it is all done, I can tell it to "CLEAN UP" successfully copied files, and then hit the COPY again to recopy the bad ones. IMO still way better than windows dieing out and having to figure where it left off! Tomorrow I may recreate this error and let it sit to see if it does recover.