May 2008 Archives

Early this morning I released Totus Copy.  Totus Copy is a utility that was born out of necessity.  As some of you may know, I work as an Apple Certified Technician. I see a lot of failing and plain out dead hard drives in my line of work. I also spend a lot of time painfully pulling data off failing hard drives. 

Once we get a hard drive showing in the bus, there is still a lot of work left to do. OS X doesn't have what is referred to as resumable copying.  What this means is that if a file fails in the middle of a copy, the entire copy will fail. This is all well and good for normal use, but for copying data where you expect 20% or more of it to fail, it is a total pain in the butt. You can spend many hours locked in front of a system.

What Totus Copy does is solve this critical problem. If a file fails, Totus Copy will attempt to retrieve as much data as possible.  It will then move onto the next file and continue the process.  Many technicians know the pain of going directory-by-directory trying to salvage as much data as possible. Totus Copy makes this a problem of the past. 

While writing and field-testing Totus Copy over the last several months, an impressive feature set was developed that makes this software a very practical and powerful data recovery tool.  It has the ability to skip over invisible files or applications and you can set it to target specific directories or files of a certain type. It will never transfer a bundle or a directory rather it recreates them. Totus Copy will never give up and has been known to grab working copies of files that other data recovery tools left behind. 

Totus Copy will unquestionably save data that would otherwise been lost.