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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Here's another question, this time from me.
I realise that USB flash drives are not the best medium for storing backups, but is there any reason why say the first two or three folders might copy over, then the rest end up empty? I've found this happening with every transfer; thought it was just my music files but I've gone back since and checked the video files too and the same thing - you get like maybe Star Trek TOS, folder, all files; Star Trek Next Gen, folder, all files; then Star Trek DS9, folder, empty; Star Trek Voyager, folder, all empty and so on. Can't figure that out. Do USB flash drives have some sort of limitation with doing this, and added to that, does anyone know of decent online storage (happy to pay, not expecting free) that would give me say 2 to 4 tb to store these files? One that is reliable? I see one that does 10TB but they look exceptionally dodgy and I would not trust them.
I've had issues with the drive most of my films and TV shows and music files are on, and I'm afraid one of these days soon it may just clap out, which is why I need backup. Drives of the same capacity (6 tb) are still very expensive, and even buying 6 x 1 tb will be a considerable outlay, though if I have to I guess I will.
Any advice welcome.
Thanks
TH
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I've used
external hard drives and
SyncToy for physical backups for years, and will usually upgrade to a new larger one every few years. I have one for my personal stuff, and one for work. I also have a 200GB Google Drive account, and a 2 TB DropBox account I use for sharing files from home/work and for sending links to larger files that won't fit through an email bottleneck.
As far as files not copying over, it might be that the files are too large for the flash drive, or the flash drive in question is formatted to FAT32 and needs to be reformatted to NTFS. FAT32 format will only save files under 4GB, so that's why some will appear to have been copied and others are missing.