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Copying same data to multiple drives
Posted: 09 November 2009 07:25 PM   [ Ignore ]
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Does anyone have a suggestion for an easy way to copy the same set of data to several drives at once?

I’m working in an education setting where some teachers have a class set of flash/jump drives, and want to put the same data on all of them without dragging and dropping to each one separately.

I am thinking in terms of having a couple large hubs with all the drives attached, and imaging them all with one click. Any thoughts on how to script this, or suggestions for existing software that would do it?

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Posted: 10 November 2009 10:32 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Might try SuperDuper. It can clone drives and allows shell scripts.  I think they have a trial period so you could try it out and see.

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Posted: 10 November 2009 10:37 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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pats - 10 November 2009 10:32 AM

Might try SuperDuper. It can clone drives and allows shell scripts.  I think they have a trial period so you could try it out and see.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll give it a try…

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Posted: 10 November 2009 11:43 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Check out copycat, see here: http://mac.rbytes.net/cat/mac/utilities/copycat/

I think it is the way to go.

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