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Making Functional Robocopy Backup Script?
I cannot for the life of me get the thing to run on a new user laptop setup I'm working on. I'm hoping someone can help. I have been trying to search forums and YouTube videos but would really benefit ...
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Robocopy issues with cloud files
I’d like Robocopy to copy all useful data from a Windows system drive, but, for some reason, robocopy doesn't know how to tell apart certain OneDrive files (I guess Google drive and iCloud may have ...
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Robocopy Long File Name
Windows 10 run in our users' company PCs, long path name errors appears to them while trying to transfer files from the PCs to the windows server 2016
Users do not want to Flatten the folder ...
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Robocopy command to copy updated files and long path names
I'm trying to write a robocopy command to copy from folders SR to DS.
Folder DS might have files that already exist in Folder SR, but if Folder DS is updated, don't overwrite it. If folder/files ...
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Why does my Robocopy always copy one file but not the other?
Trying to learn Robocopy for a basic backup plan, and I tried this in a bat file:
@echo off
echo "Hello World!"
robocopy C:\Testfolder Z:\Testfolder
pause
where Z: is a network drive (a usb external ...
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Robocopy switches to make new copies of existing files?
This is for a very basic backup plan. Imagine that a full copy of c:/myfolder (and all its sub-folders) has already been created at d:/myfolder. Is it possible to use Robocopy as a daily/weekly job ...
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How can I get copied directory sizes using robocopy and copy to match?
I have been having trouble with the size of data on disk not being reported consistently the same. Robocopy log is ok but properties information gives different directory sizes. Recently I made a ...
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