Robocopy not quite working for 1 million files
Robocopy has been one of my favorite tools for about 15 years. However, in this case, it is not quite finishing the job.
I need to copy close to a million files totaling 10 GB from a remote SAMFS share to local Windows folder.
This is what I used:
Robocopy K:\ D:\Target\images\stills\ /E /COPY:DAT /R:0 /W:1 /NP /TEE /Log+:C:\temp\Robustcopy.l
(K: is mapped to remote SAMFS share.)
About half of the files got copied and then the process terminated on its own. The log file only showed the header. Thinking the log file may be getting too bulky, I removed "/NP /TEE /Log+:C:\temp\Robustcopy.l
How may I see progress of copying? Are these files too many for Robocopy? What other tool may be used? (This is production environment.) Thanks.
AK
I need to copy close to a million files totaling 10 GB from a remote SAMFS share to local Windows folder.
This is what I used:
Robocopy K:\ D:\Target\images\stills\ /E /COPY:DAT /R:0 /W:1 /NP /TEE /Log+:C:\temp\Robustcopy.l
(K: is mapped to remote SAMFS share.)
About half of the files got copied and then the process terminated on its own. The log file only showed the header. Thinking the log file may be getting too bulky, I removed "/NP /TEE /Log+:C:\temp\Robustcopy.l
How may I see progress of copying? Are these files too many for Robocopy? What other tool may be used? (This is production environment.) Thanks.
AK
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Gary,
Fastcopy is a good suggestion, but the link you included takes me to a Chinese/Japaness page when I click on download.
Fastcopy is a good suggestion, but the link you included takes me to a Chinese/Japaness page when I click on download.
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Aikimark,
You are right that /W switch is not needed. But I don't think it should come in the way.
1. The version of robocopy is the one that comes with Win2008-R2, or 5.1.10.1027.
2. There is no workstation here. Source is non-Windows (SAMFS share) and target is Win2008-R2.
3. Time elapsed is at least 12 hours, because I see CMD windows gone next day.
4. Win2008-R2
5. Do you mean mapping a drive to the local folder? Are you sure that is something worth trying?
Thanks.
AK
You are right that /W switch is not needed. But I don't think it should come in the way.
1. The version of robocopy is the one that comes with Win2008-R2, or 5.1.10.1027.
2. There is no workstation here. Source is non-Windows (SAMFS share) and target is Win2008-R2.
3. Time elapsed is at least 12 hours, because I see CMD windows gone next day.
4. Win2008-R2
5. Do you mean mapping a drive to the local folder? Are you sure that is something worth trying?
Thanks.
AK
You are currently using a pull model. I wondered if a push model might be a work-around.
Or is the system you are currently running the Robocopy command on a Windows Server 2008 box?
If you have the bandwidth in your server room, try adding the multi-threading option to your command Example: /MT:12
Or is the system you are currently running the Robocopy command on a Windows Server 2008 box?
If you have the bandwidth in your server room, try adding the multi-threading option to your command Example: /MT:12
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Yes, I am running the robocopy on Win2008-R2 box. Cannot run on the Source side since that machine is not Windows.
/MT is a good suggestion -- which I have not used before -- but default threads are 8 and maximum is 128. Is there any reason to limit it to 12? Why not more since files are only 10 to 30 KB? The server has plenty of CPU resource. Thanks.
/MT is a good suggestion -- which I have not used before -- but default threads are 8 and maximum is 128. Is there any reason to limit it to 12? Why not more since files are only 10 to 30 KB? The server has plenty of CPU resource. Thanks.
Is there any reason to limit it to 12?Thought it would be easy math if your current elapsed is 12 hours.
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IV,
Thanks for this suggestion. This looks like a worthy tool but in this case we want to keep some extra files in the Target folder. In other words, we don't wish to mirror just overwrite. Thanks.
AK
Thanks for this suggestion. This looks like a worthy tool but in this case we want to keep some extra files in the Target folder. In other words, we don't wish to mirror just overwrite. Thanks.
AK
You can just do an update. You don't have to do a mirror. You have a few options.
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aikimark got me thinking about /R and /W options but he did not suggest that I should increase the value for /R.
2. Have you tried doing the copy the other way around? (from server to workstation)
3. How much time elapses before the copy fails?
4. Are you working on the workstation during the copy?
5. Have you tried creating the target directory tree in a separate step?