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Re: Robocopy - windows backup strategy 11 Years Ago by CimmerianX Robocopy is just 1 tool in the toolbox. It's great to keep a mirrored/secondary copy of data, but no good way to do historicals.... And the correct Net use syntax is NET USE Z: \\Servername\sharename /USER:username Re: Symbolic link with Robocopy ? 7 Years Ago by Siberian robocopy /sl C:\ResourceA C:\ResourceB\Sync\Acme /xd *"DocumentsAB&… Robocopy - windows backup strategy 11 Years Ago by slacke … some other problem (windows cannot read some files) robocopy should continue to backup if the network is back … Backup utility. Further, I have one problem with robocopy. I created a .bat script which is scheduled …/BACKUP \USER:Remoteuser This should be inserted before the robocopy command (this should connect the network-drive). It didn… Re: Robocopy - windows backup strategy 11 Years Ago by JorgeM … advantages that a traditional backup application can give you over robocopy. 1) A backup job will backup the files from …choose should depend on your exact needs. AGain, I use robocopy to create "backups" as well, typically I use… I need to create a mirror instead of a backup (robocopy c:\ d:\ /mir). with regard to your net use … Re: Robocopy - windows backup strategy 11 Years Ago by gbarnas … and Linux platforms. It's MUCH more efficient than Robocopy in these situations and not too difficult to set up… from a scheduler. In one client environment, they used Robocopy to sync a master web server to 3 slaves. The… between sites over WAN links, something I'd never consider Robocopy for. Google "Unison File Synchronizer" for more… Symbolic link with Robocopy ? 7 Years Ago by Siberian … are two things to which I want to do with Robocopy and I'm unsure whether it is possible. First create… Re: Symbolic link with Robocopy ? 7 Years Ago by Siberian … after searching I was surprised, or so I think that Robocopy can complete this task. I'm aware that is /xd…>" /sl /xd The above command did work within Robocopy, not in the way I had hoped. Which was to… Re: Symbolic link with Robocopy ? 7 Years Ago by rproffitt "as normally a symbolic link would work ? " Sorry no, I have never seen a symbolic link do what you asked so far. As to robocopy not picking up all folders I think more inspection of permissions on the source folder is needed as well as checking your robocopy syntax. I think you are close to getting it to sync. Re: Symbolic link with Robocopy ? 7 Years Ago by Siberian … exclude a sub-folder. This [page](http://dosprompt.info/commands/robocopy.asp) has all the flags listed that go along with… Robocopy. There is an /XD & /SL flag; it would appear … Re: Running robocopy from within Visual Studio 2010 10 Years Ago by Reverend Jim I've attached a sample robocopy project. I redirect StdOut so I can capture and display …. You can also do the same for StdErr. Note that robocopy (in the command line) rewrites the current line to display… Re: Symbolic link with Robocopy ? 7 Years Ago by Siberian Therefore Robocopy doesn't do what I want to do, which is create a symbolic link between two folders but exclude a sub-folder from the source folder as so I though when searching for a more powerful alternative to symbolic links ? Re: Symbolic link with Robocopy ? 7 Years Ago by rproffitt … might find a way. https://www.google.com/search?q=robocopy+all+but+one+folder finds it does have a /XD… Re: Symbolic link with Robocopy ? 7 Years Ago by Reverend Jim >The above command did work within Robocopy, not in the way I had hoped. If it doesn'… Re: Symbolic link with Robocopy ? 7 Years Ago by Siberian …/Symbolic_exclude.jpg) I want to create a symbolic link using Robocopy from the folder Acme to the folder Tower. Maybe I… Re: Symbolic link with Robocopy ? 7 Years Ago by rproffitt … me. "I want to create a symbolic link using Robocopy" Either you want to sync or you want to… Re: Symbolic link with Robocopy ? 7 Years Ago by Reverend Jim You don't use robocopy to create a symlink. You can use the `junction` command … Re: Symbolic link with Robocopy ? 6 Years Ago by Catherine_4 Dont you think its high time to replace robocopy with some other software. I seriously don't like to … Running robocopy from within Visual Studio 2010 10 Years Ago by mrkm1188 I want to copy a folder structure from one directory to another and keep the folder permissions within the structure. Is there code to use robocopy for this? Re: Running robocopy from within Visual Studio 2010 10 Years Ago by mrkm1188 … Process With MyProcess.StartInfo .FileName = "H:\##ISDEPT\Folder Templates\robocopy.exe" .Arguments = srce & " " & dest &… Re: Running robocopy from within Visual Studio 2010 10 Years Ago by Reverend Jim Just add more arguments to the list for robocopy .Arguments = srce & " " & dest & " /e /r:0 /COPY:DATSO" Please mark this as solved if this is what you needed. Powershell script to backup from server to mobile VPN client 8 Years Ago by riahc3 …" once that is done, I start a robocopy there.... I have the robocopy implemented in PowerShell now I need to implement… Re: Powershell script to backup from server to mobile VPN client 8 Years Ago by Kayasax … \\192.168.250.$_\path\IAMTHECORRECTVPNBACKUPSERVER.txt -eq $true ){ #do robocopy } else{ write-host "host 192.168.250.$_ is… vbScript - Get Drive Letter by Volume Label 5 Years Ago by Reverend Jim …. To backup D Ii use a script front end for robocopy. Using a script to do the backup has one major… Re: Help with batch file please. 13 Years Ago by gavin1069 … update, hmm.. The pot begins to boil. Please run the robocopy from the cmd line and paste the error message you… ([B]as administrator[/B]) and run 'robocopy /?'. This should give you robocopy help and verify that robocopy is on your system. Its free… Re: Automatic Pulishing of Site 17 Years Ago by mikeandike22 … i believe [URL="http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html"]robocopy[/URL] ? - not sure what this does, but someone said… Re: Mirroring..Possible? 16 Years Ago by Impi We will be using a windows box to backup to. I googled robocopy and came across the robocopy website([url]www.tgrmn.com[/url]) and found it to be exactly what we need. Thank you for the help I really appreciate it. Re: Help with batch file please. 13 Years Ago by D4Stone I think we can close this thread. I made a Robocopy.exe file on my desktop and inserted the string you …! It worked like a charm. I have never heard of robocopy so I am going to have to do a little… Re: How to backup nicely? 13 Years Ago by Reverend Jim I use robocopy.exe (command line tool free from Microsoft). I do a … on an external T drive. The command I use is robocopy d:\ t:\ddrive /e /r:0 /purge the first two… Re: Deploy VB Windows Application with new version of code via GP 10 Years Ago by Reverend Jim … launching the app directly, ran a script which did a robocopy from a network share (containing an installation of the app… changed so the copy took almost no time. Once the robocopy was done the script would run the app. Re: Deleting extended attribute set due to presence of reparse point. Help! 5 Years Ago by Reverend Jim … I wouldn't want to lose. This is basically a `robocopy` of my D: drive. I typically copy new files to… (in-between copies are on CheckPoint). I will then periodically `robocopy /mir` the A disks to the B disks. So effectively…