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RoboCopy: Clarification of /xo Switch

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

My question is this:
The robocopy switch /xo has been described this way by Microsoft, "Excludes older files"
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145(v=ws.10).aspx#BKMK_remarks

Another source has this to say "eXclude Older - if destination file exists and is the same date or newer than the source - don't bother to overwrite it."
http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html

Both of these resources fail to define "older" and "date" respectively, in other words, is it modified date or created date that /xo checks against?

Thanks a lot for your help!

PS. Forgive the section selection, I could not locate any categories concerning batch or scripting.

Bartender_1

/XO : eXclude Older - if destination file exists and is the same date
or newer than the source - don't bother to overwrite it.

What this means, is if the file exists in both locations, and this switch is included in the command, it will compare the file in the destination, with the file in the source, to see which is newer.

You can see more about robocopy switches here:

http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html

Hope this helps!

:o)

Bartender_1

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You definitely answered my question in the 2nd post, thank you. I was wondering if I could verify this information, specifically, "by default [this] will be the date modified". It's a rather lot of mission-critical data I am interacting with so if there is one (I couldn't find it) I would love to find a source, if it's not too much trouble.

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