Some Robocopy help

Inoshishi · 10 May 2008 at 22:52

Hi, I'm just writing a batch file using robocopy.exe to backup my data to a spare HDD.

What I want it to do is an exact mirror of what I have on drive D, onto drive E. So if delete some data off D, I want that replicated on E. (if that makes sense)

I was thinking of something like this:

Code:

robocopy.exe "D:\Share" "E:\Share" /PURGE
pause
exit

Can anyone offer any advice?

Cheers

MarcLister · 11 May 2008 at 00:09

Looks pretty good so far.

This might help. http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html

Inoshishi · 11 May 2008 at 00:14

Hmm maybe the /MIR command is more what I'm looking for?

MarcLister · 11 May 2008 at 00:15

Does sound better that.

LeperousDust · 11 May 2008 at 00:41

use both switches /mir /purge also a log file might be nice too, just in case you want to nkow what happened last copy... And do you want to copy user permission owner and data correctly? If so add those switches too

Inoshishi · 11 May 2008 at 00:52

Just testing the below, seems to do what I want, will take a while to complete though.

Code:

robocopy.exe "D:\Share" "E:\Share" /mir /log:"E:\backup.log" /tee
pause
exit

Leperous - Why use both /mir and /purge? whats the advantage?

Cheers

LeperousDust · 11 May 2008 at 03:56

Sorry i'm being slightly dense there, i mean you could use mirror, or purge and the copyall:xxx switch, gives you a little more control over the attributes you copy

Also remember the special vista date switch if you want to make sure the modified date stays the same as the soruce file

Inoshishi · 11 May 2008 at 10:58

Thanks guys, have settled on the below and it seems to be working perfectly

Code:

robocopy.exe "D:\Share" "E:\Share" /mir /log:"E:\backup.log" /np /tee
pause
exit