RoboCopy Reviews and details

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• Is ultracopier still the very best in terms of open source alternative file copying/merging tool ?

  I used robocopy on a slow network to transfer many gigabyte of data; properly configured with retries and everything worked great. Don't know about your merge needs, so take a look into it and do some tests before actually running it. Source: over 1 year ago

• Is copying the best way to transfer large amounts of files?

  If you're copying a ton of files that vary in size, using a command prompt robocopy with the multi-thread parameter can make it so you are copying multiple files simultaneously and max out the bandwidth of whatever connection you're using (usb, SATA, ethernet, etc). Source: over 1 year ago

• Game data to new PC

  This would probably work well. Oblivion mod managers edit load order by modifying dates on the files, and I'm not sure if dragging-and-dropping would keep that info. Source: over 1 year ago

• Migrating file servers - Robocopy syntax question

  Yes, /mir also deletes files and directories that have been deleted from the source. Here's a list of the switches. Source: over 1 year ago

• Robocopy Hell - Copy data without NTFS permissions

  My friend you helped me big time. I was able to test more and the U flag on /COPY was the culprit here. Which isn't a huge deal for me so using /COPY:DAT worked great. Turns out this is the default switching for /COPY anyway according to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy. Source: over 1 year ago

• How do I write a script to change the background to run as a slideshow?

  Within my first year or two of working there, I wrote a ridiculous backup solution in batch that leveraged vshadow and robocopy to allow it to run without interrupting the user. It worked, but was all kinds of jank...and during a beta testing stage (multiple users, etc), my boss shelved the idea so I could work on "more important" tasks. Source: over 1 year ago

• connecting two computers via lan

  Not sure if I’m understanding your problem correctly but this sounds like something robocopy could help you with robocopy. Source: over 1 year ago

• I recently realized that I had no idea what was eating up so much of my C: Drive. I did some digging and found this. Anyone know if there's a way to reduce Local Media app data without rebuilding it entirely?

  Take a look: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Upgrade Advice... (Storage)

  If you delete something it deletes it when the mirror runs. To prevent this you can opt for a non mirrored backup by not using the /mir switch which will not Purge files from the mirror that are not on the master, so if you do this you will either have to manually delete things from the mirror or set up a secondary process weekly monthly or whatever that runs the mirror command to remove the excess files from the... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Why is moving some thing to an usb is taking so long?

  Zip it then use Robocopy https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Trying to learn nested FOR loops. Need some help.

  Besides, for more sophisticated copy operations, I'd recommend you consider to use robocopy. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Robocopy to monitor folder and move files to QNAP NAS

  Https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy /copy: Specifies which file properties to copy. The valid values for this option are:. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Help: how to sync a folder to immediately copy and save downloads into a seperate folder (but not sync deletions)

  Robocopy is very well suited to this, depending on how "real time" you need. Full guide on it here: Https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Files with long names are not letting me move a folder in Windows. Is there a quick or easy solution to this?

  Use robocopy, or try renaming some of the higher-level folders to shorten the path names. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Interesting CPU bottleneck on Optane/SSD/Hard Disk

  Tried robocopy's /MT switch? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Powershell Multithreading

  That said, it is very easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it, so using a tool that can already do this like robocopy as someone else suggested is the safer play: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy. Source: about 2 years ago

• Robocopy

  Robocopy is a popular, versatile Windows command-line utility for mass data copying… and building on a good thing, spacecowboy shares a script that "runs multiple robocopy instances per directory. It just turned my estimated 50 hour copy job to about 6 - 7. Runs 8 robocopy processes at once by default.". Source: about 2 years ago

• WinForms/Visual studio - I have a lot of references/custom buttons, etc. files in the program folder. Is there a way to move them to folders and leave only exe + a few other files?

  If you add a post-build step that uses something like RoboCopy to move the required assemblies and supporting files into the sub folder you specified in the application configuration, you will still be able to debug normally. I've never tried this particular wackiness myself, but you should be able to do something similar with any publishing steps you do. Source: about 2 years ago

• Retroactively Copying File Attributes....Ugh

  Check out robocopy and yes, you may end up migrating the data a second time. I work on linux, so I'm only aware that robocopy exists and is similar to rsync (linux). Https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to use Node.js to backup your personal files (and learn some webdev skills along the way)

  Here's the really cool thing though: not only does Windows have a very similar tool with a similar API called robocopy, the rsync NPM package allows us to chain a method called executable() that takes a string. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Dynamic nesting of commands

  How does robocopy do this? I haven't found anything in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy on how this is checked. Source: over 2 years ago