Slowing down w/ 'Pause' > 'Unpause...

[themrwho]

Hello,

Thanks for this great tool!

I am a Windows 7 32-bit user and I have two seagate drives 1 TB each, they
hold my data and I mirror master one to slave one using FreeFileSync. Normally
that would be all I need.

However (one or maybe both) of the drives are bad and they just keep freezing
when a heavy write operation is underway (perhaps they freeze on heavy reads
too, don't know yet).

I will return them for guarantee at some point but I do not have any other
space to back my data up to, so I am waiting until finances get better. I will
keep using these 'bad/freezing' drives until I have a better one.

This being the situation; I still want to keep one copy (master) up to date
with my data by manual copy/delete process. Then to push this changes to the
second drive I am using FreeFileSync every day or every week depending on
volume of changes to master disk.

Now my question is;

Is there a way to accomplish any of these goals (goal #1 is preferred BTW)

1. basic pause / unpause of the sync process let's say every 1 minute. So, start sync, 1 min later pause and sleep for 5 secs, unpause (continue syncing) for another 1 min, sleep for 5 secs, and so on. I am not sure what values will keep drive from freezing but I can find it out easily once I have the framework/solution for this kind of implementation.

any ideas how can I make this work?

2. alternatively, can I use any Windows software to limit disk write speed? Like bandwith control for hard disk drive. (NetLimiter for USB Disk)

Any FFS or 3rd party solutions or scripting ideas welcome.

In worst case I can do some crazy process kill, re launch sync, process kill
re launch sync loop but I am looking something better.

Thanks a million

-Gavin

[Zenju]

>1. basic pause / unpause of the sync process let's say every 1 minute.
It's easy to accomplish with www.autohotkey.com: Just record a few steps with
the macro recorder, like pausing, unpausing the sync-process then insert some
Sleep()-statements into the script at appropriate places.

>I use any Windows software to limit disk write speed
Reducing disk speed was never a requirement I had. One thing that possibly
works is setting the disks to PIO mode in device manager. For better solutions
I'd ask google.

[themrwho]

Zenju,

Thank you I will try first option as it is the preferred workaround method for
me now.

Regards