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Backing up Fireball
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Post 1 made on Sunday February 12, 2017 at 10:54
tomciara
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Have one that is singing happily along. Like to back up the content to a network computer.

Trying Windows Explorer (Win 7). Can't highlight the entire "Content" folder, copy and paste. Maybe too many files/too many megabytes?

Tried to copy blocks of content at a time. Sometimes it will do a block, other times the Paste function starts the process and then it just ends with nothing accomplished.

Is there a better way? DOS command line "COPY //NETWORK/FIREBALL/CONTENT C:BACKUP/FIREBALL/CONTENT?

I'm sure you've done it and are laughing now. Where is CP/M when I need it?
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Post 2 made on Sunday February 12, 2017 at 12:26
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On February 12, 2017 at 10:54, tomciara said...
Have one that is singing happily along. Like to back up the content to a network computer.

Trying Windows Explorer (Win 7). Can't highlight the entire "Content" folder, copy and paste. Maybe too many files/too many megabytes?

Tried to copy blocks of content at a time. Sometimes it will do a block, other times the Paste function starts the process and then it just ends with nothing accomplished.

Is there a better way? DOS command line "COPY //NETWORK/FIREBALL/CONTENT C:BACKUP/FIREBALL/CONTENT?

I'm sure you've done it and are laughing now. Where is CP/M when I need it?

One of my clients has a Request server and after ten years, he thinks it's time to move on to newer technology and possibly a NAS. He said it's no big deal to load the music again, since he has all of the discs and I disagreed about that.

I have one of the same model/smaller drive (thanks to their wonderful "You need to buy two in your opening order" BS), and since I have been thinking along the same lines about moving on, I asked a similar question here. While that thread was ongoing, I knew that if I click the Start button, Computer and then Network, I would see the server in the list of devices and when I right-click that, one of the options was 'Open'. I saw a list of folders and clicked on the one that seemed like it would have the music files and in this case, it shows Best, MP3s, Pictures, Share and Upload. Since I don't want to move the MP3s, I chose Best and when I opened it, I saw three folders, one with what looks like a name, in Hex. I clicked on that and saw all of the Artist names. When I clicked on one, I saw the CD title and then, the song titles after clicking on the CD titles. I right clicked one of them, selected Copy and Pasted it to my desktop. I also had the option of sending it to a media player and when I have the time, I'll move my music to my external hard drive with Windows Media Player and see how it goes.
My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
Post 3 made on Monday February 13, 2017 at 08:29
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Try using BeyondCompare to make the copy between the Fireball and the PC drive.
BC will create a "worklist" of files to be moved and then start the copy, when it fails, you can just restart it from the failure point and pick up from there.

The Fireball drive is probably failing and breaking the copy, so this will let you run the process until you have everything copied or the drive fails completely.

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OP | Post 4 made on Monday February 13, 2017 at 11:34
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I will check out Beyond Compare, thanks!

BTW, The fireball drive is just fine, and has never had even the sign of a hiccup. Just wanted to back it up on general principles.
There is no truth anymore. Only assertions. The internet world has no interest in truth, only vindication for preconceived assumptions.
Post 5 made on Monday February 13, 2017 at 12:46
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On February 13, 2017 at 11:34, tomciara said...
I will check out Beyond Compare, thanks!

BTW, The fireball drive is just fine, and has never had even the sign of a hiccup. Just wanted to back it up on general principles.

Rest assured, that drive is absolutely not "just fine"

read errors are dropping it out of copy.


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