Fellow Forum Members,
I have the following task to accomplish and I want to know if the latest version of Directory Opus is the right tool to use.
I have a new file server setup with 6 clean hard drives at 1TB each and close to 1,000 DVDs worth of data to transfer over to each of these hard drives.
Does Directory Opus have the ability to keep an accounting record of what files on a DVD get transfered to the hard drive and what files stay behind on the DVD disc? The reason I would like this kind of accounting record is for the purpose of future drive failure protection. If one of these hard drives fail in the future, I would like Directory Opus to provide an accounting record for me that will show me how to rebuild a hard drive with the correct data as it was before drive failure.
You can switch on the protocol function that will record all copying actions. The settings would have to be tweaked (i think the default is around 1000 actions),
depending on the number of files to be copied. The protocol list can be saved between the actions or the default changed to a higher value.
Also, you can list all files & copy the file names (with or without paths) to text files. Under options -> pfererences -> plugins -> protocol file you can
not only set the number of files to be protocolled, but also, if actions in sub directories should be included or things like files deletion & renaming actions.
Abr's using the German version so he's translated the names of things back to English with slightly different results to what they are.
Settings -> Preferences -> Logging is where you go to configure what Opus logs. You'd want to turn on include all files within sub-folders and maybe change some of the other options.
You can view and save the log via Tools -> Output Window -> Log.
Just logging what gets copied will not tell you what didn't get copied, though, so I'm not sure if the log is really the answer here. If I was doing something like this I would probably just save listing of the HDD and DVD directories into text files (or .CSV files) to compare them later if needed.
While you could do that using Opus's Print Folder tool (which can save to text files as well as print things), you'd have to be careful that none of the names got truncated, which is a little fiddly at the moment (especially if we're talking about a lot of files in multiple folders/levels).
The best way I can think of to get listings of all files in & below a particular folder is to switch Opus to Flat-View Grouped (via the View menu), then Select All, then use Edit -> Copy Filenames -> As Full Pathnames, and then paste that into a text file. (If you just Ctrl-V into a folder Opus will put the clipboard text into a file for you.)