Robocopy Script

[harrimann]

Hey guys (and grils)

 

So I just got a new job as an IT – Assistant, I am incharge of maintaing some backups for this office. They were using the following robo copy commands to backup all the My Documents on all the systems in the office (about 80 machines in all). I can’t for the life of me figure out what this loop is doing…

 

 

G:

cd \Eureka\MyDocBack

 

for /D %%f in (*) do c:\batch\Scheduled\Robocopy "\\%%f\c$\my documents" "G:\Eureka\MyDocBack\%%f" /XD Laptops /XF *.m4a *.mp3 *.wma *.rmx /E /R:1 /W:1 /Log+:G:\Eureka\RoboLogs\%%f_Log.log /NP /TEE

 

c:\batch\Scheduled\Robocopy "\\kpryor\d$\my documents" "G:\Eureka\MyDocBack\kpryor" /E /R:1 /W:1 /Log+:G:\Eureka\RoboLogs\kpryor_Log.log /NP /TEE

 

c:\batch\Scheduled\Robocopy "\\viper\e$\outlook" "G:\Eureka\MyDocBack\Viper-!\outlook" apw.pst archive.pst /E /R:1 /W:1 /NP /Log+:G:\Eureka\RoboLogs\viper_Log.log /NP /TEE

 

I understand that its putting the data on the G: drive and in the \Eurkea\MyDocBack folder.. what I don’t understand is the for part.. any help..

 

Short story short.. whenever I rollout a new machine with the UserName(Date) Example¨Harri1010 it will not pickup the new machine, thus not getting the backup..

 

Where is this getting allt he comp names??

 

Thanks

 

-Harri

[morganw]

It looks like the computer names come directly from the folder names that are found in G:\Eureka\MyDocBack.

 

The 'For' part is basically saying for each directory in the current folder (G:\Eureka\MyDocBack) - do this. %%f represents the folder name, which gets passed into the robocopy options as a computer name.

 

The rest looks hard coded for the computer called kpryor and viper so that isn't going to do anything different regardless of how the folders change.

 

To add a new computer to back up I would just make a folder for it. i.e. G:\Eureka\MyDocBack\Harri1010

[harrimann]

thanks thats what i thought it was doing.. so i need to manually ad the computers to the mydoc folder.. thanks guys.. just double checking..

[morganw]

If you aren't familar with robocopy there is a lot of good documentation for all of the switches

Robocopy

 

You might want to to increase the values on /R and /W to something like higher like /R:3 /W:30 for a backup in case you get a temporary network or power fault during the backup.

[harrimann]

Thanks, I was told it was generating the folders from another means. I will take a look at the Robocopy docs.. thanks for the quick reply.. you guys rock!!

[faizanayaz]

I just want to know if there is any option to take regular backups using robocopy which only replaces the updated files and not the same files over and over again taking up time.

 

 

e.g

Source

Task1.doc - updated 10-10-2010

Task2.doc - updated 10-10-2010

Destination

Task1.doc - Updated 11-09-2010

Task2.doc - updated 10-10-2010

 

so considering above scenario is there any option so that robocopy skips Task2.doc and only replace Task1.doc

 

Your quick response will be highly appreciated.

[morganw]

If using robocopy you'll probably want to use the archive bit to differentiate between modifed and unmodified files.

 

/A : Copy only files with the Archive attribute set.

/M : like /A, but remove Archive attribute from source files