robocopy

Robocopy File Transfer Backup using SQL Server.

I have a job running robocopy to copy files from the SQL server to a backup drive. The job runs a CmdExec type job to call a batch file that runs robocopy. my issue is although the files copy over fine the error reports dont get registared I tested this by changing the source file to a bogus drive. It still reports job success. I have ...

How do I detect which program has returned an error code?

Hi, I'm attempting to run a series of commands programmatically, read the error codes, and detect if these codes indicate success or failure so I can respond accordingly. Currently my commands are using psexec which then launches robocopy. I've noted that while most commands return an error code of 0 if the program is successful, roboco...

Cruisecontrol.net Robocopy SMB permissions issue

Hello I'm having problems with robocopying a repository from a windows server machine to a samba share. When I run the copy logged in with my domain username on the server it works in the terminal, but when I run it through cruisecontrol it's failing, CC is reporing back Access is denied. <message>2010/07/08 14:54:41 ERROR 5 (0x00000...

Robocopy to multiple destinations

Hi, is it possible and safe to copy from one source to multiple destinations with Robocopy? I mean, something like this in a bat file: ROBOCOPY source dest_1 ROBOCOPY source dest_2 Is there any side effect? Thanks! ...

Robocopy non administrator

Hello! Can I run Robocopy with a non administrator user if I have read/write rights on both source and destination folders? Is there any side effect/limitation? My command would be: robocopy \\server1\SRC \\server2\DEST THANKS! ...

Using Robocopy to deploy sites

I want to be able to quickly deploy updates to a site that is fairly busy. For smaller sites I would just FTP the new files over the old ones. This one, however, has a few large dll's that regularly get updated and while they are copying the site is effectively down (plus there is the hassle of making backups of them in case something go...

How can I make robocopy silent in the command line except for progress?

Hi, I'm using robocopy to do backups with a PowerShell script, and it's pretty awesome, except that I'd like it to only show the progress percentage while it copies and not all of the other information. The other information clutters the command window, which I'd clean and simple so that it's easy to see the overall progress of the bac...

What's the algorithm behind Robocopy?

I am curious to know what makes Robocopy (Robust File Copy) so fast and robust. Any body knows what is the API/Algo used for Robocopy? Anybody studied Robocopy? I am asking since I have to write a method (in .NET/C#) which will copy directories/files fast and without errors... The amount of data can go up to 15Gb and I cannot simply cal...