So his reliability comment was directed more toward robocopy utility itself. Eluding to the fact that he's seen robocopy copy files that turned out to be not the same as the original.
We're not doing anything complex. We want to copy some files from source control and catch deleted files at the same time. So instead of deleting the entire destination folder and copying new files from source control. I'm saying it's as simple as robocopy /mir and that's it. That way whatever file is removed from source control will get removed on the destination servers as well. On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Tom Miller <tmil...@sfgtrust.com> wrote: > I've used it many times for file migration moves and even for > permissions copies. Just this past weekend I migrated a pretty complex old > Windows 2008 server shared to Windows 2008 R2 this past weekend. I didn't > copy permissions since they were a mess.**** > > ** ** > > The only errors I've seen were my own, usually syntax or spelling.**** > > ** ** > > What are you trying to do?**** > > **** > > ** ** > > *From:* Tigran K [mailto:tigr...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Monday, February 04, 2013 11:34 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Robocopy reliability**** > > ** ** > > Having a discussion with the boss on how we should do something I > suggested robocopy. His reply was a strict "NO". Reasoning was that it's > not reliable. He said "I've seen it break".**** > > ** ** > > So my question is have you seen it break? Is robocopy any more or less > reliable than built in copy? I did point out that robocopy is built in to > windows as well at least for Windows7. Didn't seem to help.**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
