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How to make Robocopy work
I am trying to automate the process of copying my pictures each day from my laptop to a USB drive. The USB drive will have several Gb of images on it and the laptop will have a few hunderd Mb. I keep some images on my laptop to work on for weeks. What I want to do is copy files from my laptop to my storage drive if they haven't been copied before.
The code below is what I am running. I copied this from an exchange expert post but it only runs for a sec and no log file seems to be generated. I don't know where to start, as it seems, according to the manual that something should have happend.
All of my disks are formated NTFS
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Brad
The code below is what I am running. I copied this from an exchange expert post but it only runs for a sec and no log file seems to be generated. I don't know where to start, as it seems, according to the manual that something should have happend.
All of my disks are formated NTFS
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Brad
@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
SET _source=E:\All Music
SET _dest=F:\My Music
SET _what=/COPYALL /B /SEC /MIR
:: /COPYALL :: COPY ALL file info
:: /B :: copy files in Backup mode.
:: /SEC :: copy files with SECurity
:: /MIR :: MIRror a directory tree
SET _options=/R:1 /W:1 /LOG:MyLogfile.txt /NDL
:: /R:n :: number of Retries
:: /W:n :: Wait time between retries
:: /LOG :: Output log file
:: /NFL :: No file logging
:: /NDL :: No dir logging
ROBOCOPY %_source% %_dest% %_what% %_options%
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Sorry, the quotes got stripped from my robocopy documentation example. But you get the idea: try quotation marks around _source and _dest
just noticed something on my script
robocopy "E:\Music" "F:|Music" /S /V /TS /FP /LOG+:"My Music.txt" /Z /R:10 /W:30
needs to be
robocopy "E:\Music" "F:\Music" /S /V /TS /FP /LOG+:"My Music.txt" /Z /R:10 /W:30
hth
Carrzkiss
robocopy "E:\Music" "F:|Music" /S /V /TS /FP /LOG+:"My Music.txt" /Z /R:10 /W:30
needs to be
robocopy "E:\Music" "F:\Music" /S /V /TS /FP /LOG+:"My Music.txt" /Z /R:10 /W:30
hth
Carrzkiss
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