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FastCopy does everything TeraCopy does, but faster and better: http://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en

(this is the only tool I miss when working on Linux)

My items that I miss in Linux - anyone know any good replacements ? Aabby & Visio

Few items for ubuntu/crunchbang: virtualbox - docker -krusader/rsync/filezilla - file mgmt - autokey - python automation -gimp 2.8.10 - 2.10 will bring gpu/multicore support - bittorent sync (been meaning to try owncloud) kate text editor - terminator/finalterm - advanced terminal clementine - firefox - lucifox/ghostery/abe/sqlite manager etc - pdfmod

On XP - perhaps, but on Windows 7 and up FastCopy and TeraCopy are both slower than or marginally comparable to robocopy, which is a built-in bulk copying tool. Microsoft did an amazing job with it in W7, robocopy is really damn fast.

I have used Robocopy to move over 300TB of data round recently and not a single error. Robocopy is at UNIX level stability. Really a kick ass tool.

Are you sure about that?

It's hard to find benchmarks, but things seem to point in the direction of fastcopy still being faster.

See e.g. http://www.sepago.de/e/helge/2011/05/17/fastcopy-free-file-c... (robocopy comparison at the end)

Would be great to see benchmarks of course! :)

Yeah, positive. Just ran a quick test copying 3GB .iso from local HDD to USB3 drive.

  fastcopy - 152 sec (average of 3 fastest runs out of 4)
  robocopy - 65 sec

Incidentaly, tried the same with my backup program and it's 62 seconds, faster than both.

Thanks for mentioning this, I've been looking for such a tool for a while now. It's open source too (a requirement for me)!

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