Copier

Copier is a tool for copying files from damaged disks at low speed. A timeout can be specified to give-up when the file is uncopiable. All copied files are logged with a status.

Copier has been tested on macOS and Windows.

Requirements

• Golang 1.7.x,1.8.x

Installation

• Download it from releases page.

Manual build

Quick mode

go get github.com/mdouchement/copier/cmd

or

1. Install Go 1.7 or above
2. Install Glide dependency manager

• go get -u github.com/Masterminds/glide

3. Clone this project

• git clone https://github.com/mdouchement/copier

4. Fetch dependencies

• glide install

5. Build the binary

• go build -o copier *.go

6. Install the compiled binary

• mv copier /usr/bin/copier

Usage

copier -h

• Generate files list prior to edit it before launch the copy

copier list -o /tmp/tobecopied.txt ~/Documents

Unwanted line can be commented by adding a # at the start of the line.

• Start the copy

copier copy --speed 1MBps --timeout 1m --from-list /tmp/tobecopied.txt ~/backup

Logging to /Users/mdouchement/backup/copier.log
File /Users/mdouchement/Documents/.DS_Store: already exist
File /Users/mdouchement/Documents/test.pdf
 4.59 MB / 7.13 MB [===================================>----------]  86.81% 1017.16 KB/s 12s

License

MIT

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request