Backing up TRS 2019 to usb

[big_b]

I'm using FastCopy to back up my install folder as well as other folders ( docs etc )
Backing up install folder to another internal drive works perfect

I tried to back up to a 1tb usb drive I have for an external copy but
every time I try to do a backup of Trs2019 it comes up with corrupt file messages
( the file or directory/mytrainz/packages is corrupt and unreadable.please run the Chkdsk utility )
anything else I try works fine only Trainz fails

Anyone know why this is happening

 

[SailorDan]

I tried to back up to a 1tb usb drive I have for an external copy but every time I try to do a backup of Trs2019 it comes up with corrupt file messages
( the file or directory/mytrainz/packages is corrupt and unreadable.please run the Chkdsk utility )

What was the report from Chkdsk?

 

[clam1952]

Are you synchronising or overwriting?
Is the error referring to the external drive or the drive on the PC?

If the error is on the backup drive and you are synchronising, it could be there is corruption in the backup packages, try a chkdsk on the external drive?

Thoughts, if nothing wrong with either drives.
Could be that fast copy is timing out for some reason, might want to check your USB ports are not set for power saving and the external drive is set for performance and write caching enabled, Run device manager as administrator, find the External drive in Device manager, right click, Properties, policies, Select Better Performance and make sure the write caching is enabled. The default in Win10 is quick removal which slows things down and is more appropriate to USB sticks and is opposite to the default in Win7.

Try a different USB port, back ports powered by the motherboard chipset are usually better than front ones which are often a separate chip such as Asmedia.
Or try a different cable if you have one.

 

[boleyd]

removed xxxxxxx:n:

 

[big_b]

Are you synchronising or overwriting?
Is the error referring to the external drive or the drive on the PC?

If the error is on the backup drive and you are synchronising, it could be there is corruption in the backup packages, try a chkdsk on the external drive?

Thoughts, if nothing wrong with either drives.
Could be that fast copy is timing out for some reason, might want to check your USB ports are not set for power saving and the external drive is set for performance and write caching enabled, Run device manager as administrator, find the External drive in Device manager, right click, Properties, policies, Select Better Performance and make sure the write caching is enabled. The default in Win10 is quick removal which slows things down and is more appropriate to USB sticks and is opposite to the default in Win7.

Try a different USB port, back ports powered by the motherboard chipset are usually better than front ones which are often a separate chip such as Asmedia.
Or try a different cable if you have one.

Removed the backup folders from the copy and it was fine no errors
Looks like the backup folders are fine internal Hdd to internal Hdd but don't like being copied to a usb drive
So I'm just backing up externally without the backup folders

 

[JCitron]

Try increasing the buffer size in FastCopy.

What this will do is use more RAM to hold data before writing to the external drive. The RAM will fill up first before it dumps the contents to the hard disk rather than the external disk being continuously written to. The more RAM you have, the bigger the buffer you can use. I recommend giving this a try and see how it works. I use a 32 GB buffer for my setup and it works well for me, but I have 64 GB of RAM.

If this doesn't solve the problem, you may need to check elsewhere. I have had a similar error in the past back in the TS12 days and that was due to some bad content. You may have to delete that particular asset and reinstall it, which was the solution I needed to resolve the issue. Hopefully this isn't your own content!

 

[clam1952]

Notice a spammer has copied from my post word for word?

 

[JCitron]

Notice a spammer has copied from my post word for word?

I noticed that too. I thought maybe he/it/thing should be reported for removal. There's been a few of them lately from that region in other posts as well.

 

[hiawathamr]

I also noticed that he left a nice link at the end of the copy message...

 

[clam1952]

I reported it because of the link, hours ago, it's still there.........