Migrating home folders?

@Hamish, Please do not make condescending comments that robocopy users have just not tried to use the richcopy options properly!
My comment was that there is NO option to trickle or throttle the file transfer, and no way to do a trial run without actually transferring the files. A file copy programme that runs faster may be better for some people, but maybe there are other users on the network who also need the bandwidth.

It does not always “come down to the person using the program, and how well they understand it” – it comes down to whether the programme supports my needs and I understand perfectly well that Richcopy just does not have the options I need – sorry!

@Hamish, Please do not make condescending comments that robocopy users have just not tried to use the richcopy options properly!
My comment was that there is NO option to trickle or throttle the file transfer, and no way to do a trial run without actually transferring the files. A file copy programme that runs faster may be better for some people, but maybe there are other users on the network who also need the bandwidth.

It does not always “come down to the person using the program, and how well they understand it” – it comes down to whether the programme supports my needs and I understand perfectly well that Richcopy just does not have the options I need – sorry!

Another one is the Microsoft SyncToy. The latest version also support network shares and it can be called with a script now so you can probably use it on a scheduled task:

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/freeware/microsoft-releases-synctoy-2-1-freeware-download/

Another one is the Microsoft SyncToy. The latest version also support network shares and it can be called with a script now so you can probably use it on a scheduled task:

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/freeware/microsoft-releases-synctoy-2-1-freeware-download/

@silent H,

Robocopy for one ;)

@silent H,

Robocopy for one ;)

erlj

erlj

I have a special logging request. My company has been using a custom vbscript to copy a specific file to all users in our ActiveDirectory. Yet there is no logging of the events. My boss and I having been looking over Robocopy and RichCopy for extra logging functionality. We successfully utlized Robocopy to create a cmd line which copies a file from one location to another user’s computer during login. Though Robocopy has logging capabilities, it’s missing a piece of information. It doesn’t log the computer name that the file was copied to, just the source path and destination path. RichCopy has a nicer GUI, but still no computer name logging capability either. Are we asking too much of Robocopy or RichCopy to provide this type of information? Again, we want a log file that contains the users or computer names that successfully received a file. PS – Sorry for interrupting the forum with this question. I couldn’t find many places to post questions about Robocopy or RichCopy

I have a special logging request. My company has been using a custom vbscript to copy a specific file to all users in our ActiveDirectory. Yet there is no logging of the events. My boss and I having been looking over Robocopy and RichCopy for extra logging functionality. We successfully utlized Robocopy to create a cmd line which copies a file from one location to another user’s computer during login. Though Robocopy has logging capabilities, it’s missing a piece of information. It doesn’t log the computer name that the file was copied to, just the source path and destination path. RichCopy has a nicer GUI, but still no computer name logging capability either. Are we asking too much of Robocopy or RichCopy to provide this type of information? Again, we want a log file that contains the users or computer names that successfully received a file. PS – Sorry for interrupting the forum with this question. I couldn’t find many places to post questions about Robocopy or RichCopy

I’ve been using Richcopy for about a year now and the “purge” option does this mirror trick for me. I’m not a power user so I’m not sure why its called “purge” but it does the same thing as an rsync with the –delete option which is what I was looking for when I stumbled upon richcopy. Correct me if I’m the only one seeing this but you can try it out for yourself by creating a temp source folder with a bunch of files and copying the entire thing to a temp destination folder. Then delete a file from the source and do the rich copy with the purge option. On my windows XP, it deletes the file from the destination if it was delete from the source. Please make sure you experiment on this with a folder that has been duplicated from another source as I don’t want to be responsible if you lose data. Works for me.

I’ve been using Richcopy for about a year now and the “purge” option does this mirror trick for me. I’m not a power user so I’m not sure why its called “purge” but it does the same thing as an rsync with the –delete option which is what I was looking for when I stumbled upon richcopy. Correct me if I’m the only one seeing this but you can try it out for yourself by creating a temp source folder with a bunch of files and copying the entire thing to a temp destination folder. Then delete a file from the source and do the rich copy with the purge option. On my windows XP, it deletes the file from the destination if it was delete from the source. Please make sure you experiment on this with a folder that has been duplicated from another source as I don’t want to be responsible if you lose data. Works for me.

@silent H,

Personally I would stick with Robocopy then. RichCopy is nice if you need a gui for Robycopy but for server admin tasks it sounds like your process is working.

Granted, now that SyncToy is working for network shares now perhaps that’s a good option as well. Here’s a link with Details:

http://groovypost.com/tiny/2260

@silent H,

Personally I would stick with Robocopy then. RichCopy is nice if you need a gui for Robycopy but for server admin tasks it sounds like your process is working.

Granted, now that SyncToy is working for network shares now perhaps that’s a good option as well. Here’s a link with Details:

http://groovypost.com/tiny/2260

I currently use RoboCopy (as scheduled tasks running batch files) for a replication process to copy application standard resources from a central server out to regional office servers. That sometimes involves removing standard resources as the application tools change – and expecting that file to disappear from the regional servers.

I currently use RoboCopy (as scheduled tasks running batch files) for a replication process to copy application standard resources from a central server out to regional office servers. That sometimes involves removing standard resources as the application tools change – and expecting that file to disappear from the regional servers.

@Dave,
What you want to use Robocopy /MIR

This will MIRROR all files from A to B. If you delete it in A then it will be deleted in B however not vice versa. I use it all the time to SYNC my music and photo collections at home.

For more questions, just use ROBOCOPY /? however /MIR is what you want.

@Dave,
What you want to use Robocopy /MIR

This will MIRROR all files from A to B. If you delete it in A then it will be deleted in B however not vice versa. I use it all the time to SYNC my music and photo collections at home.

For more questions, just use ROBOCOPY /? however /MIR is what you want.

@Alex,
Do you prefer RichCopy over the standard RoboCopy? Granted, I like the GUI of RichCopy I do prefer the stability and command line features of RoboCopy. I use it to mirror shares across WAN circuits as well. It’s always worked flawless.

@Alex,
Do you prefer RichCopy over the standard RoboCopy? Granted, I like the GUI of RichCopy I do prefer the stability and command line features of RoboCopy. I use it to mirror shares across WAN circuits as well. It’s always worked flawless.

I have to admit the syncronise functions are a little shaky and end up just re-copying all of the data.

I have to admit the syncronise functions are a little shaky and end up just re-copying all of the data.

@Hyseeker, I agree. Although I though Richcopy was going to be great, I ended up not using it all that much… For the time being, I’m sticking with Teracopy and Robocopy (command line)….

@Hyseeker, I agree. Although I though Richcopy was going to be great, I ended up not using it all that much… For the time being, I’m sticking with Teracopy and Robocopy (command line)….