Robocopy in windows vista

Posted on June 27th, 2007 by Jason

It is an advanced copy utility with has the feature to automatically resume file transfer on error or network disruption, or recover from terminated file copying, with selective copying based on new or updated criteria.Beside,It can preserve all of the file properties and information, including date and time stamps, security access control lists (ACLs) and more while replicating the file.

By default Robocopy came built-in with windows vista as a command line but as a command line interface only but microsoft has also released a GUI (graphical user interface) application comprising robocopy command completely.

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5 Responses to “Robocopy in windows vista”

rene courau on 18 Aug 2007 at 3:02 pm #

Any case Robocopy is a bullshit. It doen’t work at all.
When wil we get rid of this asshole bill gates ?
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chameleon on 28 Mar 2009 at 4:18 pm #

The challenge I have with Robocopy is that it can’t copy groups of files like XCopy can, for example, *.doc, project123*.*, etc: it’s a folder copy utility.

As well, changing copied files’ timestamps to current time by default seems a retrograde step for archiving and version checking.
cwb3106 on 01 Apr 2009 at 2:45 pm #

Chameleon: You are correct that ROBOCOPY copies complete folders by default. But you can specify which files to copy. The syntax is different from COPY and XCOPY:
ROBOCOPY source destination [file [file]…] [options]
For example
ROBOCOPY C:\source D:\destination *.doc

I don’t know why you’re seeing the timestamps change. There is a /COPY option to specify the attributes you want copied. It defaults to /COPY:DAT meaning data, attributes, and timestamps.