Robocopy - Server Backup Scripts

[bodminman]

Hi there,

 

does anyone use Robocopy for backups?

 

If so, would you mind sharing your scripts. I want to do Full backups over the weekend and incremental during the week and keep a month on rotation.

 

Cheers if you can help. If you can't, well thankyou for just ready!

 

Have fun!

[steveg]

I'd be cautious about using robocopy for backups, as i'm fairly certain it wont copy any files that someone has left open, unlike backup software which normally can.

 

Steve

[Gibbo]

There really shouldn't be any files left open. If there were surely that would mean that there were machines left on?

 

My script, runs daily:

 

robocopy "X:\pupils\Y7" "\\backupserver\d$\Pupils\Y7" /S /E /V /NP /R:3 /W:10

[bodminman]

Any idea what Error 5 Copying File . . . . . . Access denied means? I'm running this on a test server and logged in as a Domain Admin.

[Gibbo]

Are you getting it for every file, or just the odd one?

 

This might help: Luis Rocha's Blog: Robocopy error: ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Changing File Attributes

[sted]

latest iteration of the ones i use for user areas etc (not system)

echo job started >>"\\nasbox\backup\Robocopy\users\mon\log.txt"
time /t >>"\\nasbox\backup\Robocopy\users\mon\log.txt" 
date /t >>"\\nasbox\backup\Robocopy\users\mon\log.txt" 
robocopy d:\users "\\nasbox\backup\Robocopy\users\mon" /copyall /mir /r:2 /w:5
echo job finished >>"\\nasbox\backup\Robocopy\users\mon\log.txt"
time /t >>"\\nasbox\backup\Robocopy\users\mon\log.txt" 
date /t >>"\\nasbox\backup\Robocopy\users\mon\log.txt" 
echo. >>"\\nasbox\backup\Robocopy\users\mon\log.txt"