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[Zootsuit]

I have a very large library that over time I've been backing up onto external drives (Hitachis) using the 'Rename, move and copy' function, or so I thought. My folder structure is Artist\album\track number\name. During backup operations, a progress bar appears, the program notified me if I was copying a duplicate, it took an appropriate amount of time to copy and to all appearances, everything was proceeding normally.

I opened one of the backups using Windows explorer and unhappily found (a) that few of the many files I'd copied appeared in the drive - in most cases, only 1 of the many tracks in an album had been copied, even though there was a folder for the album itself; and (b) in a number of cases, my original folder structure wasn't preserved at all.

Many of the original files also are located on external drives. All drives are USB 2.0 connected and the computer reads each of them.

Here is system info. I'd appreciate some input on this, as an important function seems to be crippled and I'm left to copy through Windows explorer, with all the issues that poses.

Thanks.


Media Center 15.0.174 Registered -- C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 15\

Microsoft Windows Vista 6.0 Service Pack 2 (Build 6002)
Intel Core 2 2665 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 4194 MB, Free - 880 MB

Internet Explorer: 9.0.8112.16421 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82.6002 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.0.6002 / Shell32.dll: 6.0.6002 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive E: TSSTcorpCDDVDW TS-H653Q   Mode:ModeSecure  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 100
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive E: TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Q    Addr: 0:1:0  Speed:40  MaxSpeed:40  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /

Portable Device Info
  Removed devices:

Device info dump for 'Corsair Flash Voyager (S:)':

WMDMName: CORSAIR
DeviceUID: $$?$wpdbusenumroot#umb#2&37c186b&1&storage#volume#1&19f7e59c&0&_??_usbstor#disk&ven_corsair&prod_flash_voyager&rev_1100#aa00000000000014&0##{f33fdc04-d1ac-4e8e-9a30-19bbd4b108ae}$0
CanonicalName: \\?\wpdbusenumroot#umb#2&37c186b&1&storage#volume#1&19f7e59c&0&_??_usbstor#disk&ven_corsair&prod_flash_voyager&rev_1100#aa00000000000014&0##{f33fdc04-d1ac-4e8e-9a30-19bbd4b108ae}$0
VendorName: ; VendorID: 2316
ProductID: 4096; FirmwareVersion: 1100
WMDMSerialNumber: 1f
WMDMWriteOurOwnPlaylists:
DeviceType: 0; DeviceID: AA00000000000014; DeviceName: Corsair Flash Voyager; UnsupportedDevice: 0
IsDrive: 1; DriveLetter: S:; DrivePath: ; MainDriveLetter: S:
IsJanusCapable: 0; IsIpod: ;iTunesDBVersion:
SupportsAlbumArt: ; AlbumArtEnabled: 1; CoverArtTagRule: ; SaveCoverArtToFolderJPG:
GetPlayStatsFromDevice: 0; SupportsFolders: -1; PlaylistFormat: 0; EjectMode: ; AlwaysPumpCOMMessages: 0
SupportedFileTypes: *
MemoryTypes:
InstallURL:
ApplicationName: Media Center
ImageName:
RootBasePath:
AudioBasePath: Music\[Artist]\[Album]\
ImageBasePath: Images\
VideoBasePath: Video\
DataBasePath: Data\
PlaylistBasePath: Playlists\
DatabaseBasePath:
AudibleBasePath: Audible\
MatchKeyExpression: If(IsEqual([Media Type], Image), [Name]
[File Size, 0]
, [Name]
Clean([Artist], 1)
[Album]
[Genre]
FormatNumber([Track #, 0])
[Media Type]
)
ChangeKeyExpression: [Rating]

ResyncIfDateModified:


Interface Plugins:
  TiVo Server (Active)

[Alex B]

You must provide something that is reproducible.

Find a file that does not copy as expected.

Run the Rename, Move, & Copy Files tool. (Take notes of the exact settings and filename rules you use, the displayed filename preview and perhaps take one or more screenshots.)

Find where the file actually went if anywhere.

Post a detailed report (including the RM&CF settings, the source filename & path and the expected destination filename & path, and the screenshots if possible.)


In general, the RM&CF tool is not designed to be a full-blown backup tool, though if you only care about backing up the actual media files it should be usable.

For replicating the complete file structure and keeping the backup sets up to date I'd recommend using a dedicated tool, for example: the freeware Karen's Replicator (still available, even though its creator sadly passed away) or the commercial SyncBackSE.