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Incremental copy of log file content
I have a couple of log-files, growing one line at a time, as log files do.
The files are available via SMB network share.
I want to periodically copy these files. Since the network is rather slow and ...
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Robocopy occasionally "forgets" to copy files
I use robocopy to copy modified files between my development machine and a server.
Source machine is Windows 10. Target machine is Windows Server 2016 Standard.
This is the command and parameters I ...
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Use robocopy to copy without attributes for files and directories
I'm trying to run robocopy to copy data but not copying attributes (timestamps are ok).
My first thought was to run with these switches: /copy:dt /dcopy:t
The way I interpret the documentation, those ...
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Windows 10 - Robocopy chokes on a directory called "Recovery"?
Trying to use Robocopy with the MIR switch to copy the entire contents of one disk (not networked) to a directory on another (also not networked).
The source disk is E:.
The target disk/directory ...
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Copy NTFS MetaData: Good Idea or Bad?
I wanted to "migrate" or "mostly clone" a drive to a new one. So, I robocopied a drive, and discovered that the destination has a few missing MetaData files including files from:
B:\$Extend\$...
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Robocopy - NTFS Access is Denied
I am trying to backup a disk from one share to another using robocopy with the following command:
robocopy \\servername\E$ \\servername\F$\Copy /E /ZB /copyall /r:5 /w:30 /dcopy:T /log:"C:\Temp\log....
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"Copy but keep both files" but only for files with different timestamps
I'm trying to consolidate 5 very similar but slightly different tree structures into a single one but not lose any modified data.
So, I need a solution that will:
1. Copy files that exist in the ...
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Copy Files from One Drive to Another and Keep Hard-Link in Windows
I have drive A: with 16G Space and plenty of files, due to the Hard-link feature in NTFS, the files together is 15G but only takes 2G of real space.
I like to copy all those files to drive B: which ...
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Copy files from FAT32 to NTFS, preserving date
I have a FAT32 flash drive full of old archived emails, and their creation/modification date is important because it represents when the email was received. I'm trying to copy these over to another ...
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