After some trial and error and observing the results (in other words, I hacked it), I got it to work. Quotes ARE required to use a path name with spaces. The trick is there MUST be a space after the path names before the closing quote…like this… robocopy “C:\Source Path ” “C:\Destination Path ” /option1 … Read more
From the documentation: /is Includes the same files. /it Includes “tweaked” files. “Same files” means files that are identical (name, size, times, attributes). “Tweaked files” means files that have the same name, size, and times, but different attributes. robocopy src dst sample.txt /is # copy if attributes are equal robocopy src dst sample.txt /it # … Read more
I haven’t found a way to do so. Instead I use PowerShell to do the copy and track progress. This might be of use: Custom RoboCopy Progress Bar in PowerShell
On my system (Vista), powershell shows the c:\ drive as having both hidden and system attributes set. PS C:\Users\michael.DOMAIN> Get-Item c:\ Directory: Mode LastWriteTime Length Name —- ————- —— —- d–hs 8/18/2009 12:19 PM <DIR> C:\ After copying the files, you can use attrib to fix them. Check out attrib /? for details.
There is a limit on command line length (I think it is something like 2048 characters) in windows. You should generate a job file with a small subset of the exclusion list specified (using the /save:filename argument) to get the syntax, edit the file to include the full list, and then use the /job:filename argument … Read more
Restartable mode (/Z) has to do with a partially-copied file. With this option, should the copy be interrupted while any particular file is partially copied, the next execution of robocopy can pick up where it left off rather than re-copying the entire file. That option could be useful when copying very large files over a … Read more
If you need to provide a path that includes spaces to robocopy’s /log switch you can do it like this: /log:”c:\path to logs files\some log file.txt”
Robocopy, or “Robust File Copy”, is a command-line directory replication command. It has been available as part of the Windows Resource Kit starting with Windows NT 4.0, and was introduced as a standard feature of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. robocopy c:\Sourcepath c:\Destpath /E /XC /XN /XO To elaborate (using Hydrargyrum, HailGallaxar … Read more
You don’t mention if it has to be batch only, but if you can use ROBOCOPY, try this: ROBOCOPY C:\Source C:\Destination data.zip info.txt /E EDIT: Changed the /S parameter to /E to include empty folders.