if I copy massive files via robocopy during storage vmotion then is there any negative impact ? thanks, Answer It will obviously have a little impact on the performance, it will be a little slower, but otherwise it will have no impact. How much slower depends entirely on the hardware and the abilities of your … Read more
I’ve had Robocopy running for about 24 hours now…it’s moving 2.6million images across a network, and is probably less than 10% of the way through. Is there a faster way to do this? Answer Probably. Depending on the version of robocopy you have, there is a multithreaded copy option, /MT:16, where the number is the … Read more
I have a folder structure like this: Source C:\Data Data1_timestamp Data2_timestamp Data3_timestamp Data4_timestamp Destination D:\Data Data1 Data2 Data3 Data4 Is it possible to use robocopy to copy each source subfolder to the corresponding destination subfolder (eg. Data1_timestamp would be copied to Data1, Data2_timestamp to Data2 etc) Destination after the copy D:\Data Data1\Data1_timestamp Data2\Data2_timestamp Data3\Data3_timestamp Data4\Data4_timestamp … Read more
I’ve used Robocopy for several years now for backup purposes, and never looked back at any backup application I used in the past. I replicate whole valued directories to a removable HD, than from this HD to and equivalent system. Over time, quite a few DLL and EXE have accumulated in these directories, none of … Read more
We have a Samba share to which I am copying files with robocopy /mir. Problem is the next time I try and sync that with robocopy /mir it copies all files again even though they haven’t changed. I can’t see why robocopy should be detecting all these files as changed when they haven’t been. Any … Read more
I do not really know where to post my message. Networks or system or scripting, so … I have a requirement in my company. Here is the goal : Monthly I’ll have to copy a package> 500MB on 25 computers on 25 different sites. (For this I have an automated script Robocopy that copies and … Read more
I need to throttle a robocopy transfer to limit bandwidth usage. It is already set to 1500 (/IPG:1500). I would like to increase this IPG to around 2000 (or more) in order to lower even more the bandwidth usage. Is there a chance that it could cause some packet loss because of TCP/IP timeouts, etc. … Read more
I am trying to automate backups of a Windows 2008 Active Directory database (ntds.dit). Mounted AD snapshots get created in C:\$SNAPxxxxxxxxxx\Windows\NTDS. The script below works for creating, mounting, unmounting and deleting AD snapshots. What doesn’t work is the robocopy. Above the robocopy line, I change to the directory containing the mounted snapshot. Then, I tell … Read more
Note: This example is making a copy of an existing directory to an non-existing prior to copying directory. Note: When my scheduled tasks were giving me an error, this is how I went about attempting to resolve it. Step 1: Copying the Files to the Destination Directory robocopy C:\sourceDir C:\destDir *.* /copy:DATSOU /e Copying the … Read more
I have a few Windows updates of a few operating systems. Those are made with the program wsusoffline and contain several .cab and .exe files. I got those on a USB. What is the best way to deploy them to around 50clients? I was thinking about putting them on a networknl drive and let the … Read more
