Beta Track

Try upcoming features before they're released. Enable beta updates via Settings > License > Receive Beta Updates.

Beta releases are available only to licenses that are eligible for updates and support. Extend your license in the License Manager, if needed.

Remember, betas are not for production use.

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Cascading

By utilizing Cascading, you can offload faster. If one of your destinations is faster than the others, Cascading allows you to first copy to your fastest destination, and then copying from that destination to other destinations. This allows you to free up the source earlier on, independent of the verification mode used.

Requirements

• OffShoot 25.1β for Windows (Note: macOS is coming soon)

• Two or more Destinations

How To Set Up

1. First, set your fastest disk as Destination. This is typically an SSD or RAID. Using a NAS as the primary destination is not recommended, as this will bog down your network bandwidth.

2. Drag the next disk you want as a Destination onto the primary Destination and release when a blue outline appears (Figure 1). Repeat for additional Destinations.

Figure 1 Figure 2

1. A Cascading Group will be created, with an arrow indicating the flow (Figure 2).

2. When you've added a Source and then hit Add Transfers, transfers will be created for each destination. The transfers that cascade from the primary destination will start when the primary transfer has been completed. The Source can be ejected as soon as the cascading transfers start (Figure 3).

Figure 3

Alternatively, you can set up Cascading via the Disk Menu (or right-click a disk); select Cascade from... and choose a Destination (Figure 4).

Figure 4

Advanced Workflows

With an OffShoot Pro license, advanced Cascading workflows are possible.

Copy from your primary destinations to multiple other destinations (Figure 5), or switch to continue to cascade, where each previous destination becomes the source for the next destination (Figure 6).

Figure 5

Figure 6

It's also possible to create multiple Cascading Groups with multiple primary disks acting as sources for secondary disks (see Figure 7).

Figure 7

Beta Limitations

• To modify your cascading setup, you must drag disks out of Destinations.

• Cascading transfers won't show up in Connect yet.

• Cascading transfers are not (ASC) MHL aware yet.

• Cascading from S3 is not supported.

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