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Robocopy incremental sync

Experts, I am currently running a full copy to a new File server using command -> robocopy "\\source\folder1" . /mir /COPYALL /E /R:5 /Log:C:\temp\folder1.txt

Destination server is 2012R2 and source is 2003R2 Server

I needed to know how I can run the incremental sync after a few days to copy over any modified data to this destination folder

TIA

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Qlemo

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abhijitm00

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Thanks Qlemo, what I am noticing is that the top level folder i.e. folder1 is not getting the correct security permissions with the above mentioned command also the shares are not being created after command completes. Is that normal?

Qlemo

Shares cannot get created by RoboCopy, you'll have to do that with some other tool (and it is not easy to do remotely).
AFAIK the root folder is not touched after being created. I don't know if adding /DCOPY:T (copy folder timestamp) helps, but you should use that option anyway.

yo_bee

Have you looked info DFS? If you have not deployed your new FS it might be a good time to implement this. It helps in many levels for future changes on backend with little impact on the end users.

Some line item to consider :
Replication
Server changes
Future failover

abhijitm00

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Thanks yo_bee for the feedback. Currently we are only going in with one server but I do have DFS planned for the future

yo_bee

One server or 10 servers DFS should be implemented in my opinion. This making even a single file server move that much easier.