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Bit Torrent Sync and robocopy — Why would this recurse indefinitely? [closed]
I ran the following command against a folder in my F:\ drive I wanted to copy to my BTsync folder.
robocopy f:\ f:\bak\btsync GTD /MIR /M /LOG:logname
My intent was to copy a folder over, with ...
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Why did robocopy cause my Windows 2012 server to hang last night?
I'm in the process of decommissioning an old 2003 server, which acts as a file server, and am just attempting a dry-run of migrating the file repository over to a new Windows Storage Server 2012 box. ...
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Copy and Move Files from One Server to Another on Windows Server
I was asked to jump in and fill in for a colleague and write a Windows script that will run on server #2 and do:
1) Connect and authenticate to remote server #1 from server #2
2) Copy only files ...
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Using RoboCopy on multiple destinations with monitor option
I am trying to copy a shared folder which its content (folders and files) are created by a third party app at no specified intervals.
I need to copy these files onto two different server shares.
The ...
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differential backup with xcopy (including subdirectories)
I pilfered a script from elsewhere on this site (see below) which works almost perfectly, the only issue is that it doesn't go into the sub-directories of the destination.
For example:
If ...
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robocopy mirror, but do not use timestamps
Is it possible to use ROBOCOPY to mirror a directory, but ignore the sources timestamps? I've tried the following:
robocopy \source\folder \destination\folder /MT:16 /PURGE /COPY:D /E
But once I ...
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cloning windows server 2008 OS drive to smaller drive using Robocopy
I'd like to clone a bootable OS disk using robocopy. The source drive is larger than the destination, but with plenty of free space.
Is it possible, and if it is, what do I need to keep in mind to ...
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Robocopy Log Size Too Big
I am running a robocopy script that mirrors 1 drive to another computer, and is using the /MOT flag to stay in memory and every few hours maintain the mirror. The script is also set to create a log ...
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Robocopy won't copy from root folder
I'm having trouble with robocopy. It won't copy from "X:\files\". It just kills the batch file without writing anything to log, but it WILL copy from "X:\files\other files". Where "other files" is ...
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Robocopy Server 2003 does not support the /mt option
I am doing a rather large transfer (8TB) from inside our network to another network share. Most of the files are ranging anywhere to .1 MB to 15 MB. The machine that I need to do the copying on is ...
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Robocopy mirror to Samba keeps rewriting files
We have a Samba share to which I am copying files with robocopy /mir. Problem is the next time I try and sync that with robocopy /mir it copies all files again even though they haven't changed. I ...
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Robocopy uses relative path for Source and Destination paths
I'm trying to use RoboCopy in my TFS Build Template to copy some files, but for some reason it inserts "C:\Windows\system32" in front of my Source and Destination paths, even though I am passing in ...
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Robocopy for Microsoft Access Files MIR switch
We are using robocopy with MIR switch to backup our Microsoft Access Databases, i.e., .accdb, and .mdb files. Interesting thing with Access database files is that you can open a database, add a few ...
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RoboCopy A File From The Web?
Is it possible to download a file from the web using RoboCopy? What would the syntax for that be? Here's what I'm trying:
RoboCopy "http://www.google.com/" "C:\some_folder\" "index.html" /L /V /E ...
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WHS 2011 - Server Backup using Robocopy
I have recently set up a WHS 2011 server and the 2TB backup limit is too restricting. I've used robocopy in the past for file backups with good success, but it's only one level history backup.
I ...
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Robocopy exclude directory in recursive file structure
This seems to be a popular question on the net, but everyone else seems to be OK with being able to specify only a portion of the full path in order to achieve a sort of wildcard. I need to be more ...
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Mirror directory, only purging files in destination directory older than 7 days
I would like to mirror a directory, but only delete files in the destination directory older than 7 days.
Situation:
- Directory A is mirrored to Directory B.
- A file from Directory A is deleted
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Robocopy with local catalog of remote data for incremental backup
I am currently using robocopy to an extremely slow destination. The compare between source and destination files can take a while to run through.
Since the destination will never change (apart from ...
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Exceptional slowdown of robocopy copying from VM to DFS array
I've got an old win 2003 VM (VMware) on a blade cluster of VMs that I'm moving a considerable amount of files to our new DFS array. There are two main folders with about 1.7 million and half a million ...
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Robocopy Blow Away and Recreate?
I have a question about ROBOCOPY which I have not been able to iron out in my research.
When copying directories recursively with the /E flag and where the directory already exists at the target, ...
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Robocopying DLLs and EXEs
I've used Robocopy for several years now for backup purposes, and never looked back at any backup application I used in the past.
I replicate whole valued directories to a removable HD, than from ...
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Looking for robocopy ipg number
I have a robocopy job that creates a problem every time it runs. It saturates the bandwidth in such a way that no other traffic can get through. I read about the /IPG flag but am going in circles ...
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Can Robocopy be made to skip open files?
We are using Robocopy to redistribute files which arrive via FTP in a drop folder. Ideally we want Robocopy to leave files alone if they are still being FTPd.
Having tried various switches, Robocopy ...
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Robocopy is moving files really slowly
I've had Robocopy running for about 24 hours now...it's moving 2.6million images across a network, and is probably less than 10% of the way through. Is there a faster way to do this?
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robocopy advantages and disadvantages [closed]
Could you, please, list what do you think that are main advantages and main disadvantages of robocopy?
Thanks.
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Backup/copy open files from network share on a NAS device
We have several network shares mapped via DFS (Windows Server 2008 R2) on external NAS. That NAS is simple and doesn't support snapshots. We are making backup from the NAS via robocopy but from time ...
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User home directory being deleted from the target
Okay so to follow up my first question: User home directory being deleted from the source, we are now running into the issue where the home drives disappear on the target, so far it only (and I use ...
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User home directory being deleted from the source
Here is our scenario, we used robocopy to copy over our file server to a new & improved server. We changed the home directory path in AD to reflect the changes. We updated our AD to reflect new ...
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Robocopy, do not overwrite existing files, but copy the changed / new ones
Is it possible to mirror the two directories without overwritting the files in destination directory with new/changed/deleted files. Something like snapshots.
Example:
Copy the source directory with ...
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How do I use Robocopy to exclude ALL subfolders under a chosen folder?
I'm trying to use Robocopy in a way that excludes all subfolders under a chosen folder. In other words, I only want to target a folder and robocopy only the files within it but not it's subfolders. ...
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Robocopy to copy each source subfolder to different destination folder
I have a folder structure like this:
Source
C:\Data
Data1_timestamp
Data2_timestamp
Data3_timestamp
Data4_timestamp
Destination
D:\Data
Data1
Data2
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Robocopy copies folders but not files
I'm using robocopy on a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP2 machine with the following options:
robocopy W:\ E:\old_files\daten1\ /R:1 /W:1 /MIR /COPYALL /ZB /DCOPY:T /MT 50 /LOG:E:\old_files\copy_w.txt
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Robocopy and permissions
I have this issue, I am trying to copy home directory from one server to another using robocopy. Now, my issue is, would robocopy be able to bring over all the permissions as well?
Here is the ...
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Robocopy MINAGE and MAXAGE
What attribute dose Robocopy look at when applying those flags? data created or updated? If I a group of files is created and later one of them is updated if I run Robocopy with a later date range ...
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On Windows: is it safe to do a robocopy in order to clone the system?
Let me start by giving a bit of a background. On Linux systems, I frequently rely on the fact that as long as I can get all files over from one hard drive to another, and as long as I fix up the boot ...
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How to detect robocopy's failure to delete from source?
On my SQL Server instance I use SQL Agent to run a daily backup job in two steps.
One of the steps uses Robocopy to move local backup files to network storage.
The command to move the files looks ...
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Full backup, files copy or VSS for disk replacement on a Windows 2003 server?
I have to replace all disks of a Raid 5 volume for more space on a Windows 2003.
I want to see what is the more reliable method to backup or move data of this volume (about 800 Gb).
In first I was ...
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Backup with Mercurial and Robocopy?
The Problem
We would like to backup our critical files from several network shares to a removable hard drive. We want to automate the backup so we don't have to remember to run it. It needs to ...
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rsync (or robocopy) from multiple computers - what happens?
If a Linux server has two different rsync jobs nightly for the same folder to two different destinations, do both destinations end up with the same end set of files? Or does the first job run, and ...
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Clone a windows server volume over a network — NOT make an image
I have a 5TB volume (non-bootable) on a Windows Server 2008 box. I need to copy it to another server over the network. Because the volume has 30 million files, filesystem copy tools like robocopy will ...
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Robocopy exclude folders/subfolders containing a file named nobackup.txt
We backup a large directory structure but want to exclude some directories.
Is it possible to exclude subfolders when the parent folder contains a file named "nobackup.txt"?
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Recovering from incorrect robocopy /MIR using NAS drives
Yes I know how stupid I've been and will severely chastise myself once this has been resolved.
Just to be clear, I've done a robocopy using the /mir switch and files not present in the source have ...
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Copying files to a different domain, where no trust relationship exists
I have the the following setup.
1 x host machine situated in DOMAIN A
1 x PDC in a VM running on a host only network adapter running its own AD Forest (DOMAIN B)
1 x Server running in DOMAIN B, this ...
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Robocopy: Why you no include same?
So here's my script:
robocopy X:\WebApplications\Harrier\Stage X:\WebApplications\Harrier\production /is /e /xf: web.config
robocopy X:\WebApplications\Osprey\Stage ...
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Exchange DiskShadow/Robocopy backup does not purge log files
I have a series of scripts setup to backup my Exchange. The following command is executed to start the process:
diskshadow /s C:\Backup_Scripts\exchangeserverbackupscript1.dsh
This is ...
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Robocopy and Mercurial
I recently took a new job, and one aspects of the job is maintaining the organisation's Umbraco website. The site was not under source control nor was there a testing environment. Changes were made ...
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Do Robocopy copy efficiently large files?
in our small sized company we use Vmware. We backup the VM with Veeam.
Resulting files are in order of 200-300 gigabyte per VM, for a total of 1/1.2 terabyte of data.
I use robocopy to copy VM files ...
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Why does robocopy take 8 hours to transfer one files that is 70-80gb?
We have a scheduled task that runs every night and copies a file of around 70-80gb from one server to another on our network. For some reason it has been taking ~8 hours to do this, which is a problem ...
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How to use robocopy to move Users folder from partition c to d on Windows 7?
I just tried to copy my Users folder from partition C to partition D using the method mentioned in this post.
Unfortunately I encountered two problems:
When using the command robocopy c:\Users ...
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Best way to rsync a win2003 on linux
I'm currently dealing with a Windows 2003 (web) server, definitely not my cup of tea.
The target is to download and keep synchronized some folders (~55GB) with a linux server.
The windows server is ...
