Transfer control device, transfer device, transfer control method, and transfer control program

A problem addressed by the present invention is to provide a transfer control device, etc., with which it is possible to reduce the number of occurrences of sending and receiving processes which a management device carries out when information is transferred among recording units. To solve the problem, provided is a transfer control device comprising: a transfer processing unit which, using each of a plurality of instances of management information, carries out an information transfer from a first recording unit to a second recording unit; an assessment unit which carries out an assessment about whether or not to carry out an update by assessing completion of partial transfers, each of which corresponds to the information transfer having been associated with each of the plurality of instances of the management information, on the basis of contracted information which represents a completion status of the partial transfers.