WanBLowS, all I ask you, the only thing I ask you to do now, is to synchronize some files from A to B without transferring the whole goddamn 1.3TB of stuff that for the most part hasn't changed in any way, other than whatever your crappy NTFS filesystem mutated it into.

Robocopy, rsync, even Windows' built-in explorer. None of them do the job as they should. Why Windows.. why?! Why can't you just do one thing properly for once?!!! Piece of junk!

Have you tried Synctoy? Free download from MS that you can still find. Always has worked great for my purposes.

@monkeyboy Feels like a workaround to what should've been skipped by at least rsync in the first place (unless the filesystem changed some timestamps or whatever) but yeah if that's the only thing able to properly finish the job and deal with Windows' featureful filesystem, yeah I'll give it a try.. the last thing that I want to do is waiting for 1.3TB of files to get in sync again by mindlessly copying everything over because even at 60MB/s that's gonna take an entire night...

@Condor I feel your pain. I did a migration with a live file server to a hot standby with robocopy. It worked, but I had to spend a week trying and retrying, working out all the gotchas, correct flags, NTFS idiosyncrasies, etc. Fucking nightmare that.

@Diactoros Thanks, and yeah it most certainly is.. I'm trying to migrate my file server VM into an LXC instead to be able to fit more hosts (edit.. well actually guests.. containers?) into that machine. But I have to fit its data somewhere else first or try to figure out how to move that ZFS volume to the LXC container directly... At this point I really regret putting the secondary copy of that data as a 4TB USB 3.0 drive on my Windows machine :/ no decent filesystems to work with, and most certainly no good system!

@Condor reading through so many of your recent rants, it seems you would be much better with Linux and I don't remember you mentioning anything windows exclusive, so why not just use Linux?

@JoshBent I've mentioned it countless times already, but here's one more: Nvidia is the reason why this turd of a machine can't run Linux.

@Condor Nvidia support, even for newer graphics cards has improved though?

@JoshBent But Bumblebee didn't ._.

@Condor what graphics card is giving you problems exactly?

@JoshBent Nvidia 920M, coupled with an Intel Braswell iGPU.. can't disable the dedicated card in the BIOS, switching with primusrun causes Xorg to crash, and X doesn't like my dualhead setup either (1920x1080+2560x1080). It essentially only supports both monitors in 1920x1080 (which is a waste, and even then things are glitchy), or with the left monitor off and the right one in its full 2560x1080 (which is also a waste). I also had to compile a custom kernel with everything Nvidia disabled to make it boot up properly into a GUI at all.. but at some point I lost that .config file. In Windows I have a fuckload of privacy and usability issues but at least the graphics cards work as they should? 😅

@Condor I don't usually recommend Ubuntu, but they had a lot of out of the box support for even weirder setups, could give it a try sometime and see if it works?

@JoshBent I recall to have tested Ubuntu back in the day, didn't boot iirc. Manjaro somewhat worked using the 4.7 distribution kernel, so I used that as a base for my custom kernel and with the help of that resulting .config installed Arch. That's been a while ago though, and done via BIOS instead of UEFI. Maybe a UEFI installation could work better 🤔

@Condor newer kernels even support cherry trail sound, wouldn't surprise me if there's some additional magic for graphics too

@Ovyerus not sure how that'd deal with filesystem fuckery but yeah I've used it a couple of years ago.. it's quite good!

DirSync Pro is the way to go.

https://www.dirsyncpro.org

@filthyranter looks good.. but couldn't they really have used another programming language instead of 🤬-ing JAVA? 🤮

@Condor I know. But that's the best tool that's not malicious (FreeFileSync exists, but its releases are not equal to the source code...)