I'm shortly going to be moving our company onto a hosted desktop platform and part of this process will involve shifting all of our data.
I'm happy to Robocopy the data onto a USB drive and ship that to their datacentre, but one issue i'm having, is how i'm going to identify and copy the files that have been edited between the inital upload, and the day of migration.
Ordinarily, i'd just run another Robocopy using the /MIR command, but as the data will be within the hosted environment, i wont have direct access to it.
So i'm looking to do another local Robocopy, that only copies files that have been modified since a particular date and time. Then i'll FTP them onto the hosted platform and manually copy them back over.
I've been looking at the various Robocopy switches, thinking that the /MAXLAD option would be the one to go for (excludes files unused since x). However, i just tested this and I don't know how "last accessed" is even calculated... :/
I tested with a bunch of PDFs (all of which have the "last accessed" stamp set to the time that i originally copied the to my HDD). When i open one, then close it, the "last accessed" stamp doesn't change at all... so I don't think i'll be relying on this for my final copy :/
Urgh - can anyone suggest a simple easy way to achieve what i'm trying to achieve please?
Thanks!
I'm happy to Robocopy the data onto a USB drive and ship that to their datacentre, but one issue i'm having, is how i'm going to identify and copy the files that have been edited between the inital upload, and the day of migration.
Ordinarily, i'd just run another Robocopy using the /MIR command, but as the data will be within the hosted environment, i wont have direct access to it.
So i'm looking to do another local Robocopy, that only copies files that have been modified since a particular date and time. Then i'll FTP them onto the hosted platform and manually copy them back over.
I've been looking at the various Robocopy switches, thinking that the /MAXLAD option would be the one to go for (excludes files unused since x). However, i just tested this and I don't know how "last accessed" is even calculated... :/
I tested with a bunch of PDFs (all of which have the "last accessed" stamp set to the time that i originally copied the to my HDD). When i open one, then close it, the "last accessed" stamp doesn't change at all... so I don't think i'll be relying on this for my final copy :/
Urgh - can anyone suggest a simple easy way to achieve what i'm trying to achieve please?
Thanks!
