

LOG+somefilename.log will append the screen output to somefilename.log, creating it if necessary. R:10 tells robocopy to try 10 times to copy the file before giving up. MIR mirrors a dir tree so will delete as well as add Here's some useful tips for doing this sort of thing. So you can point it at a huge dir tree and only changed files will be copied.

The 'killer app' feature is that robocopy will retain file date/time stamps and, by default will ONLY copy files that are different. He'll log in to the same servers later tonight and run a similar set of robocopy batch files to download all the changes I'm currently uploading. I'm working with a colleague at the other end of the country. I use it for doing the sort of things you mention.įor example I'm currently running 5 robocopy sessions on my server where I'm copying about 60GB of files between 3 remote servers, I'm connected to two via a CheckPoint VPN and the other is an Amazon S3 space mapped via JungleDisk.
