How do you do this? (should be simple)

it does exactly that Neil..

I use it on my Music, Photos and all Videos for my Media centre

super quick to do, I don't even use bat files, I just type in the dir's now

robocopy /e D:\Videos b:\Videos

Then wait :)



it only takes about 30 seconds to scan through my 50gb of music (30 seconds to check there are no changes) -and this is over the network too..
 
bledd. said:
it does exactly that Neil..

I use it on my Music, Photos and all Videos for my Media centre

super quick to do, I don't even use bat files, I just type in the dir's now

robocopy /e D:\Videos b:\Videos

Then wait :)



it only takes about 30 seconds to scan through my 50gb of music (30 seconds to check there are no changes) -and this is over the network too..
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Just had a play! Yes! Does the job (a one way mirroring) extrement well! eg:-

robocopy c:\pictures\ d:\pictures_mirror\ /MIR

I have Dsychronise defined to backup a number of different folders etc (eg: pictures, music & email). I'll create a .BAT file to do them using robocopy and see how quick it is.

Looks VERY promising though! Nice tool!


EDIT: Why not use the /MIR option instead of the /E you showed? Surely better?
 
incase heaven forbid something was removed by accident from the source folder.

i don't plan to ever delete music, photos or videos, so /e is the best in this situation
 
bledd. said:
incase heaven forbid something was removed by accident from the source folder.

i don't plan to ever delete music, photos or videos, so /e is the best in this situation
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Ahh! I see! And by default that ignores files that are already there - Nice!
 
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