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Strange Robocopy behavior in directory mirroring

I use robocopy to keep some directories synchronized between two iSCSI attached arrays on a Windows Server 2012. I have noticed strange behavior in Robocopy and have done a test. I created a script to ...
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Need to create a robocopy in Powershell 1.0

My ultimate goal is to mirror a folder and its subdirectories with the restriction of only copying files with the extensions, sln, vcxproj, cs, cpp, hpp, c, and h. There are far too many subfolders ...
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What is the fastest way to mirror a directory tree on a DVD to a local hard disk in Windows 7

Recently I had DVD with a folder that contained over 83,000 files and folders. When I went to mirror this folder onto a local harddrive with ROBOCOPY I quickly discovered that more than an hour had ...
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robocopy /mir problem

i am using robocopy to take backup from one folder with following syntax robocopy "source" "destination" /mir but the issue i am facing is if file is in destination but not in source, its ...
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Mirror/Backup from SSH/SFTP to Windows

What I am trying to do is mirror a directory (recursively) from a server I can SSH/SFTP to, to a Windows machine. I want to do this as part of a script, so it can be automated. I only want to copy ...
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How to abort robocopy on first error

When using robocopy windows utility, what flags do I set so that robocopy aborts on the very first error it sees, similar to xcopy /dry command? I need to mirror two dirs, and on occasion some files ...
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