I added the following 2 parameters: /np /nfl So together with the 5 parameters from AndyGeek’s answer, which are /njh /njs /ndl /nc /ns you get the following and it’s silent: ROBOCOPY [source] [target] /NFL /NDL /NJH /NJS /nc /ns /np /NFL : No File List – don’t log file names. /NDL : No Directory … Read more
The System Volume Information directory should be excluded using the /XD switch. Probably a good idea to exclude other hidden/system directories such as $RECYCLE.BIN.
It’s a SID, or Security Identifier. If it’s showing the string rather than a “friendly name,” it sounds like the new server doesn’t recognize the account.
You must include the full path (including the drive) to the file to exclude. Relative paths won’t work. This works: robocopy folder1 destination /E /XF “c:\somedir\another dir\folder1\help.txt” This doesn’t: robocopy folder1 destination /E /XF “folder1\help.txt” Nor does this: robocopy folder1 destination /E /XF “.\folder1\help.txt”
So for this you can harken back to your DOS days (if you had them) and utilize the 8.3 naming convention, which gets around the invalid NTFS security descriptors that aren’t there. Steps to remove the invalid new destination folders: Open a command prompt with admin rights to the root folder where these new folders … Read more
AD Servers are different. A Domain Controller has a directory junction on the C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol directory that points to the C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain directory: Directory of C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol 04/13/2011 01:22 PM <DIR> . 04/13/2011 01:22 PM <DIR> .. 04/13/2011 01:22 PM <JUNCTION> domainName.acme.com [C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain] Almost any type of a manual copy operation would result in a SYSVOL that does … Read more
Turns out the /XD matches on the directory name — not the full path. So you don’t actually have to worry about matching the backslashes. So to exclude directories (anywhere in the path) called “bar”, a simple /XD bar will work. If you wanted to exclude “barf”, too, you could use /XD bar*. Sometimes the … Read more
Does this mean that it will run one time first and then keep running after it finishes and run again if a change happens somewhere down in the filestructure or when something have changed and a time has passed? Yes. /MON counts number of files changed; /MOT counts time. I’ve been afraid to ever try … Read more
In my case, it turned out to be the /Z switch, for restartable mode. Removing that switch brought the copy up to 105-110MB/s, just like the explorer copies. I still don’t know why it causes such a massive performance hit.
Have you tried using the /R and /W switches? Something like: /R:2 /W:2 This means retry twice wait 2 secs to retry. If the file is still open after the two attempts, the file will be skipped. Depending on your needs you could lower it to /R:1 /W:1.