Fast mirroring?

[duckling]

Can anyone recommend a fast tool for copying/mirroring files from one
folder to another?

We have one folder with about 3000 subfolders from which we use Xcopy
to make a "shadow copy" on a 2000 file server, for use in a legacy
application.

This works fine, except xcopy uses about 4 minutes every time to
traverse the folders
and look for updated files. For these 4 minutes, it consumes about 70%
CPU.
I'm worried about the performance impact for other users on the file
server, and would
prefer to find a less CPU intensive solution.

 

[John John]

Map or subst the folder to its own drive and have the legacy application
use the maped drive?

John

 

[duckling]

Map or subst the folder to its own drive and have the legacy application
use the maped drive?

John

I wish!

But the problem here is that the files in question are frequently open.
and open files causes the application to fail. Thus we copy all changed
files to an "offline" area....

The application in question will be modified to "continue on error",
but not soon enough...

 

[DL]

I use Backer http://www.cordes-dev.com/
There is a full demo version