We have been using Shotput Pro on my current job -- it does a pretty good job, with a few downsides.
1. Transferring the license from 1 machine to another wasn't as easy as one might hope. I don't remember the exact details, but there was some trouble doing it on a weekend.
2. Anticipated transfer times reported by the software have been wildly unreliable. We were using a relatively new Macbook pro for the transfer, if that makes any difference.
3. Transferring with full CRC error checking is pretty time-consuming -- not a problem with the software per se, but something to be aware of. The CRC error-checking pretty much doubles the transfer time. I think we had a firewire 800 card reader and were getting about 40GB an hour.
4. Shotput Pro can't pick up an interrupted transfer from where it left off -- so if it's interrupted for any reason, the transfer needs to start again from the beginning.
5. If you include hidden files in the transfer, the verification may fail -- typically the problem turns out to be related to Spotlight indexing files.
I'm now testing out using rsync in a batch script as an alternative, as suggested here:
http://miblog.alma.ch/2010/11/why-i-hate-shotput-pro.html
-Downside
-can't write to multiple destinations in a single operation.
-Advantages
- no licensing issues
- can pick up interrupted transfers where it left off.
Cheers,
--Michael
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jim Feeley wrote:
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> Glad you made it through all that Tim. And thanks for sharing your thoughts. A question about #3: For back up in the field, have you considered (or used and then abandoned) offloading apps such as ShotPut Pro? My experiences with ShotPut are fairly positive: $99 cheap; fairly easy to use; decent features for error checking, verification, and reporting (email, XML, CSV, etc); can simultaneously (and quickly) copy to multiple drives.
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