Robocopy problem

[ringo747]

I am having problems with a robocopy backup script which I have copied from my main pc to another. Everything works fine here with backing up to a mapped drive.

When I try it on another PC i get an ERROR 3 (0x00000003) The system cannot find the path specified. The path already does exist and I can access it in explorer.

What is likely to be causing this? Would it be a permissions thing? Strange that it works on one and not another.

Edit: I bet it's UAC.

 

[marc2003]

if you think it's permissions, try running a command prompt as administrator. or if it's a batch file, run that as administrator.

alternatively, you could use

/r:0 /w:0

on the command line which means it doesn't re-try or wait and it simply skips any errors it encounters. you'll probably want to output the log to a text file so you can browse it when it's done.

/LOG:f:\robocopy.txt

and if you're running at the root of the drive, you'll probably want to exclude directories with the /xd switch like this...

/xd "System Volume Information" "$RECYCLE.BIN"