I wanted to copy all the photos I have stored on the 'family' compute over to my laptop, mostly because I do not have a terrific backup stratedy in place. I was going to just use rsync to do it, but I thought I would do a quick google and see if there were any better options. I cam across this little utility from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15155