Robocopy - sanity check

[mrbios]

I need someone to look this over and agree or disagree as to whether it'll do what i need or if i need to change something:

Robocopy J:\Share1 H:\Share1 /e /zb /copyall /dcopy:T /r:100 /w:2 /log:C:\Robocopylog-Share1.txt

 

What i need to achieve:

An exact copy of the data that's on the source, to the destination, including ownerships, permissions and timestamps.

 

Wasn't sure if i needed to use the switches of /secfix and /timfix at all? also do i need the /mir command?

 

EDIT: In hindsight, the scripts section may have been better for this thread...but then again this is an enterprise application, i guess it works in both areas?

Edited May 13, 2015 by mrbios

[Chuckster]

Robocopy J:\Share1 H:\Share1 /MIR /COPY:DATSOU /R:3 /W:10 /XF *.tmp /Z /LOG:C:\Robocopylog-Share1.txt

 

That's what I use to copy things around.

Edited May 13, 2015 by Chuckster

[sted]

isnt that what /mir is for something like

 

robccopy c:\stuff\*.* d:\stuff\*.* /mir /r:1 /w:5

 

(so if a file wont copy retry once wait 5 seconds before retrying)

[tmcd35]

Does the destination contain any files? If it does then /mir will delete anything not found in the source.

 

That copy command looks fine to me. Personally I'd reduce the retries to at most 10. /MT:64 might give a bit of a speed boost (multithreading). /EFSRAW might be handy (encrypted files). /NP might speed things up a bit as well, no need to display progress if you keeping a log?

[mrbios]

Does the destination contain any files? If it does then /mir will delete anything not found in the source.

 

That copy command looks fine to me. Personally I'd reduce the retries to at most 10. /MT:64 might give a bit of a speed boost (multithreading). /EFSRAW might be handy (encrypted files). /NP might speed things up a bit as well, no need to display progress if you keeping a log?

 

Destination will be empty to start with so no files to overwrite.

 

Thanks for the performance recommendations!

 

EDIT: Ok how about this:

Robocopy J:\Share1 H:\Share1 /MIR /COPYALL /R:3 /W:10 /ZB /MT:64 /NP /LOG:C:\Robocopylog-Share1.txt

Edited May 13, 2015 by mrbios

[mrbios]

Additional question...

 

I'm thinking about seeding the data to my new store over the weekend to get the most time consuming aspect done, but what command would i run in order to replicate only the changes that have occurred in the source to the new destination? Is this possible?

 

EDIT: Is this correct? ROBOCOPY /MIR /Z /W:5

Edited May 15, 2015 by mrbios