Comments on: Robocopy in windows vista

By: RUSSELL HILLMAN

RUSSELL HILLMAN — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:06:44 +0000

Robocopy gave me the tool that I needed to synchronize 3 hard drives and a 4th stand-alone drive. I believe in systems with massive redundancy and have implemented this using Robocopy. I has survey all manner of backup programs, which were too difficult to use. I now, just click the icon on my desktop and everything happens as i want it to.
I am currently running Vista Home Premium.
RLH

By: cwb3106

cwb3106 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:45:15 +0000

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.

By: chameleon

chameleon — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:18:14 +0000

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.

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By: rene courau

rene courau — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:02:03 +0000

Any case Robocopy is a bullshit. It doen’t work at all.
When wil we get rid of this asshole bill gates ?