Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Robocopy Tool

Robocopy is a awesome tool to copy backup files. Here is the syntax to copy files.
robocopy "Z:\DATABASE\FULLBACKUP" "\\xxx.xxx.x.xxx\backups\FullBackup" /zb /copyall /purge /MIR

robocopy "source" "destination"

Copy options :
/S :: copy Subdirectories, but not empty ones./E :: copy subdirectories, including Empty ones./LEV:n :: only copy the top n LEVels of the source directory tree.
/Z :: copy files in restartable mode./B :: copy files in Backup mode./ZB :: use restartable mode; if access denied use Backup mode./EFSRAW :: copy all encrypted files in EFS RAW mode.
/COPY:copyflag[s] :: what to COPY for files (default is /COPY:DAT).(copyflags : D=Data, A=Attributes, T=Timestamps).(S=Security=NTFS ACLs, O=Owner info, U=aUditing info).
/DCOPY:T :: COPY Directory Timestamps.
/SEC :: copy files with SECurity (equivalent to /COPY:DATS)./COPYALL :: COPY ALL file info (equivalent to /COPY:DATSOU)./NOCOPY :: COPY NO file info (useful with /PURGE).
/SECFIX :: FIX file SECurity on all files, even skipped files./TIMFIX :: FIX file TIMes on all files, even skipped files.
/PURGE :: delete dest files/dirs that no longer exist in source./MIR :: MIRror a directory tree (equivalent to /E plus /PURGE).
/MOV :: MOVe files (delete from source after copying)./MOVE :: MOVE files AND dirs (delete from source after copying).

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