as far as I remember...*.* is what you need..... S
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ROBOCOPY /XD (exclude directory) wildcards On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, lists <li...@bdtechnology.org> wrote: > ROBOCOPY D:\ \\backup_server\backup_share\original_server\D /XD > D:\Programs\Microsoft\RIS\Setup\English\Images\*\i386\ /E That doesn't work either. Same "Invalid Parameter" error (except now it's a different parameter number, of course). > The above assumes that the \D after "\original_server" is a folder > name. Yup, it is. Folder exists. Permission exists. > Are you sure there are no spaces in the excluded folder? If not, > you will need to enclose in quotes. No spaces. I just tried enclosing in quotes anyway, same result. If I don't use an asterisk wildcard it then will run, so I'm pretty sure it's the attempt at a wildcard that's the problem. I was mainly wondering if someone had a poorly-documented trick that would make the wildcard work. Guess not. :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
