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

Inoshishi · 11 May 2008 at 00:14

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

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

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