BackDrop VS Cathy

I made BackDrop to solve this. If I have, for example, two folders and two drives, and one folder fits on each drive, I don't want to fill one drive and then spill over to the second drive if it means splitting one folder between two drives. I want the cleanest way possible to copy data to as few drives as possible without splitting folders if they don't need to be.

Just leaving this here in case it could be of some use. https://github.com/TechGeek01/BackDrop

I wrote BackDrop a while back. While this was originally because I was looking for a way to backup to external drives where the data being backed up was larger than the drives, and required splitting between more than one drive, it's evolved since.

For manual copies, TeraCopy is awesome, cause you can have it verify files for you. I did actually write my own tool, though that was mostly so that I didn't have to think about handling not all files fitting on one drive (5-6TB of stuff, and a mix of 2-4TB drives). It may or may not suit you, but feel free to give it a look if you're interested. Currently it was designed to back up folders on a network share to a bunch of local drives, so unfortunately, it won't show local drives for source selection (though I'm working on making it able to do that).

Cathy the catalog tool. Great tool for locating your files across multiple drives/external media etc. Original is Windows only, but there is a Python port: https://github.com/binsento42/Cathy

Cathy https://github.com/binsento42/Cathy

I did try running it in Wine but only with limited success. There might be a way to do that but I actually found out there is a somewhat usable python port endorsed on the official website of the program that is able to run on Linux. It has limited functionality and only web based GUI so I might still develop an alternative at some point to make it more seemless for my dad.