Robocopy - Help

_Jimlad_ · 15 Mar 2015 at 20:38

Hello all,

i would like to copy local video to my NAS box and keep them in sync, however my current robo setup below is set to mirror which is fine, but the NAS box software adds info to the files so everytime i run the script it will copy the whole folder over. I want the script to run and only add new files

robocopy /e "D:\Video\Created Video" "\\SYNOLOGY\video\home video" /MIR /R:50

nade · 15 Mar 2015 at 21:49

Sounds like you could just add /XC to exclude changed files.

And to check that without actually copying any new files, you could add /L to the end of the syntax to just "list only".

I always write out to a log file using /LOG+filename

_Jimlad_ · 15 Mar 2015 at 21:57

Thanks dude I will have a play around.

liamcrane · 16 Mar 2015 at 11:46

I had issues with robocopy doing just this so i just went back to xcopy with the /d /e /s /y
switches and everything seem to copy and update just fine

bledd · 16 Mar 2015 at 12:16

You don't need /e and /MIR, they overlap..

Just use MIR

Also, if ALL files are being copied each time, try adding this..

/FFT

It's a fix that adds in a 2 second grace time difference to handle the different file system..

Is your Synology on the latest version?