Software to compare two directorys ??

Snow-Munki · 1 Apr 2009 at 08:49

Hi,

Our file server of about 400 Gb's had a 'slight' issue a few weeks ago and a load of old stale data was introduced into it. Now there is about 500 Gb's ( long story !! )

I've been given the fun task if going through and finding out where this data is and deleting it.

Plan is to restore an antire backup when it was 400 Gb and then compare it to the live 500 Gb file server. Any folders which are new but not recently created I need to delete,

Best tool to do it ? Know about Synctoy but is there something 'better' willing to pay for it as for business needs.

bledd · 1 Apr 2009 at 09:36

robocopy /MIR "c:\source folder" "d:\destination folder"

or

robocopy /PURGE /E "c:\source folder" "d:\destination folder"

test both to see which does it (they may both work)

Snow-Munki · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:00

thanks but will that delete the files as I just want a log.

As new files have been created since so won't be an exact mirror.

Sin_Chase · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:06

http://www.altap.cz/salam_en/index.html

I use this a lot for compare/copys etc, has a free trial too.

UKDTweak · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:10

I have done similar but on a much smaller scale using DOS...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=compare+folder+via+dos&meta=

bledd · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:23

have a look at the robocopy options, there are many things you can do with it..

madman045 · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:44

Another software product to try would be beyond compare

I use it for server/nas data checking

Sh4rkie · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:52

madman045 said:
Another software product to try would be beyond compare

I use it for server/nas data checking

Beyond Compare gets my vote as well, excellent product.

http://www.scootersoftware.com/

Snow-Munki · 1 Apr 2009 at 11:17

madman045 said:
Another software product to try would be beyond compare

I use it for server/nas data checking

Sh4rkie said:
Beyond Compare gets my vote as well, excellent product.

http://www.scootersoftware.com/

That looks great, will download and give it a go shortly.

Thanks.

IAmATeaf · 1 Apr 2009 at 15:40

Sh4rkie said:
Beyond Compare gets my vote as well, excellent product.

http://www.scootersoftware.com/

Another vote for this, liked it so much I even paid for a licensed copy