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03.27.2008 at 03:05AM PDT, ID: 23273418

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Robocopy HELP NEEDED.

Zones: Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Operating Systems, Server

Tags: Microsoft, server 2003, Robocopy

Dear all,

I am setting up a robocopy to copy form 6 drives on server NAVSQL to a backup Server call LAB_ICT_NAVBACK which has the same six drives setup. each of thedrives contain two database files which i need to copy arcoss to the same drive letter on the back server. I have created the following bat file.

robocopy "E:\Lab370_1.fdb" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData1" /B /log:c:\log1.txt
robocopy "E:\Lab370_2.fdb" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData1" /B /log:c:\log2.txt
robocopy "F:\Lab370_3.fdb" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData2" /B /log:c:\log3.txt
robocopy "F:\Lab370_4.fdb" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData2" /B /log:c:\log4.txt
robocopy "G:\Lab370_5.fdb" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData3" /B /log:c:\log5.txt
robocopy "G:\Lab370_6.fdb" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData3" /B /log:c:\log6.txt
robocopy "H:\Lab370_7.fdb" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData4" /B /log:c:\log7.txt
robocopy "H:\Lab370_8.fdb" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData4" /B /log:c:\log8.txt
robocopy "I:\Lab370_9.fdb" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData5" /B /log:c:\log9.txt
robocopy "I:\Lab370_10.fdb" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData5" /B /log:c:\log10.txt
robocopy "J:\Lab370_11.fdb" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData6" /B /log:c:\Log11.txt
robocopy "J:\Lab370_12.fdb" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData6" /B /log:c:\Log12.txt

is this the best way to do or shall do it another way? this is running locally on NAVSQL server so thats why i have used the local path.
Source server = NAVSQL
Destination Server = LAB_ICT_NAVBACK

And all i want to do is copy 2 files from each drive to the same drives on the backup machine.

Thanks for all your help.

Adam

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Question Asked By: labelonuk

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03.27.2008 at 03:32AM PDT, ID: 21219923

Rank: Genius

oBdA:

robocopy has a slightly different syntax than copy/xcopy; the first two arguments are the source *folder* and target *folder*. Files in these folders are copied by default; additional arguments without robocopy options are considered file masks (check robocopy.doc in the ResKit folder for details).
In addition, if you're using a log file, you should use /np to suppress the progress bar, which doesn't really look good in a log file.
So to only copy these DB files (assuming that these .fdb names are the actual DB files), something like this should do the trick.

         
             robocopy "E:" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData1" Lab370_1.fdb  Lab370_2.fdb  /B /np /log:c:\logE.txt
robocopy "F:" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData2" Lab370_3.fdb  Lab370_4.fdb  /B /np /log:c:\logF.txt
robocopy "G:" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData3" Lab370_5.fdb  Lab370_6.fdb  /B /np /log:c:\logG.txt
robocopy "H:" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData4" Lab370_7.fdb  Lab370_8.fdb  /B /np /log:c:\logH.txt
robocopy "I:" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData5" Lab370_9.fdb  Lab370_10.fdb /B /np /log:c:\logI.txt
robocopy "J:" "\\LAB_ICT_navback\NavData6" Lab370_11.fdb Lab370_12.fdb /B /np /log:c:\logJ.txt

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03.27.2008 at 03:40AM PDT, ID: 21219963

labelonuk:

Thanks for all you help i have copied this into my Bat file and i will test it tonight. They are call FDB because they are fanacial database files which Microsoft Navision uses. I cant try this untill the service stops tonight. I will keep you updated.

Thanks

03.28.2008 at 02:23AM PDT, ID: 21228914

labelonuk:

Hi,

Thanks for all your help yesterday it ran and work fine. One quick question does this overwrite each time it is run? so what i need it to do it copy over the database each night and overwrite the one it created the night before.

Thanks

03.28.2008 at 02:48AM PDT, ID: 21228982

Rank: Genius

oBdA:

Yes, by default, if source and target file are different, robocopy will overwrite the target file.

03.28.2008 at 02:53AM PDT, ID: 21229001

labelonuk:

does this do it by date modified? or time stamp?

Thanks

03.28.2008 at 02:59AM PDT, ID: 21229021

Rank: Genius

oBdA:

By file time and size.
I'd recommend reading the robocopy.doc file in the ResKit install folder; robocopy is very powerful, and the documentation is very useful. In the case of which files robocopy copies when, check the "file classes".

20080236-EE-VQP-29 / EE_QW_2_20070628