![]() ![]() #HOW TO USE ROBOCOPY WINDOWS#However, when I went back onto the disk and tried to go into the destination folder I'd specified (the 'K:\DATA' folder), I found that the folder had apparently disappeared from the drive and was no longer listed as a folder in the K: drive! (That folder contained multiple data files as well).Īfter quickly testing what had happened, I searched in Windows Explorer for 'K:\DATA' and low and behold, everything was still in there and the folder clearly existed, I just couldn't see the folder from the level above.Īfter research, I found out that Robocopy has a bug where it alters the attributes of the directory to a system and hidden file. I ended up stopping it halfway through as it was taking far too long and from what I'd done, I could calculate a rough rate of transfer. Robocopy I:\DATA\ K:\DATA\ DB_DataFile.bak Below is an example of what I did using command prompt. ![]() I ran the copy without specifying any specific attributes with the expectation that it would just do what it was told and nothing else. If you haven't heard of Robocopy, then you should look into it as a command line (cmd) tool for copying your files quickly it has been much quicker than copying and pasting backup and data files around in my experience. I recently had a scary moment at a customer when I was testing to see how long it would take to copy a data file between two of their disks using Robocopy and an old and relatively small backup file. ![]()
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