RoboCopy

Information Directory

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RoboCopy is one of the most efficient solutions to utilize for syncing directories on Windows

File-Sync.cmd

• Monitors the source for any changes and logs whenever a file is copied to the destination
  • Date & Time: (Locale dependent)
    • %date%: Outputs a date in the following format: yyyy.MM.dd
    • %dtime%: Outputs time in the following format: HHmmss
      
      
  • Directories:
    • %Dest%: Destination Directory
    • %LogDir%: Log Directory
    • %Src%: Source Directory
      
      
  • RoboCopy:
    • %log%: Logging Options, outputs a log file in the following format YYYY.MM.DD_HHMMSS.log
      • /ETA: Show Estimated Time of Arrival of copied files
      • /LOG:: Output status to LOG file
      • /NP: No Progress - don't display percentage copied
      • /TEE: Output to console window, as well as the log file
        Helpful if needing to run from a terminal occassionally
      • /TS: Include source file Time Stamps in the output
      • /V: Produce Verbose output, showing skipped files
        
        
    • %opt%: Copy options
      • /MON: MONitor source; run again when more than n changes seen
      • /Z: Copy files in restartable mode
        
        
    • %what%: What to copy
      • /COPY:DAT: what to COPY for files (default is /COPY:DAT)
        Copy Flags: D=Data, A=Attributes, T=Timestamps
      • /DCOPY:DAT: Same as above, except for directories
      • /E: copy subdirectories, including Empty ones
      • /XD: EXclude Directories matching given names/paths
        Required if Log Directory is stored in the Source directory
      • /XN: eXclude Newer files
        
        
    • /SAVE: SAVE parameters to the named job file
      Outputs job file to: C:\ProgramData\Scripts\Robocopy\File-Sync.rcj
      

NoShell-RoboCopy.vbs

• Runs File-Sync.cmd with no shell (intended for use when running File-Sync.cmd as a task). To execute:

  wscript "C:\ProgramData\Scripts\Robocopy\NoShell-RoboCopy.vbs" "C:\ProgramData\Scripts\Robocopy\File-Sync.cmd"

File-Sync.xml

• Task Scheduler task that runs 30s after login