General Operation; Duplication Modes; Smart Copy; Brief Copy - Kanguru KCLONE-7HDS-PRO User Manual

3. GENEraL oPEraTIoN

3.1 Duplication Modes

The KanguruClone can copy hard drives in one of five ways: SMART mode, BRIEF mode, RESIZE
mode, DISK mode and RATIO mode.
After the Copy operation has been completed, you can manually run a Compare operation to compare
the data on the Source drive against the data on the Target drives to ensure that the all data was copied
successfully. If you select a 'Copy & Compare' action the duplicator will automatically run the
Compare operation after the Copy operation is completed.

3.1.1 Smart Copy

SMART mode checks the Source and Target drives and determines which copy mode is the most
efficient and automatically operates in that mode.
1. First the duplicator will try to detect the Source drive's file system. If it does not recognize the
file system then it will copy in Disk mode. The Duplicator recognizes the following file systems:
FAT, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, XFS, RFS, HFS, HFS+
2. If the duplicator is able to recognize the file system of the Source, it will compare the capacity
between the Source and the Target.
○ If the Source is formatted in a Windows file system and its capacity is smaller than the Target
then the duplicator will copy in Resize mode.
○ If the Source's capacity is equal to the Target, then it will copy in Brief mode.
○ If the Target drives are of mixed capacities, it will determine a suitable copy mode based on
the capacity of the smallest Target drive.

3.1.2 brief Copy

BRIEF mode copies only the sectors that contain data and skips any blank sectors (including
information hidden in sub channels). This mode supports the following file systems: FAT, FAT32,
exFAT, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, HFS, HFS+, JFS, XFS.
Note: If the Source is not formatted as a supported file system then the duplicator will automatically
switch to Disk mode. If you want to copy an unsupported file system in Brief mode, you will need to
enable Advanced Brief mode (see section 6.1.23 Advanced Brief Mode on page 38).
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