RE: ROBOCOPY /XD (exclude directory) wildcards
This won't work... ROBOCOPY /E D:\ \\backup_server\backup_share\original_server\D /XD D:\Programs\Microsoft\RIS\Setup\English\Images\*\i386\ Needs to look something like this... ROBOCOPY D:\ \\backup_server\backup_share\original_server\D/XD D:\Programs\Microsoft\RIS\Setup\English\Images\*\i386\ /E The above assumes that the \D after \original_server is a folder name. Are you sure there are no spaces in the excluded folder? If not, you will need to enclose in quotes. Cheers. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ROBOCOPY /XD (exclude directory) wildcards Hey all, With ROBOCOPY, is there a way to configure a directory exclude with a full path with a wildcard in the middle of the path? I want to do something like this: ROBOCOPY /E D:\ \\backup_server\backup_share\original_server\D /XD D:\Programs\Microsoft\RIS\Setup\English\Images\*\i386\ If I try the above, ROBOCOPY refuses to run, saying Invalid Parameter. The official docs just say /XD supports wildcards, but don't explain any details. From what little third-party info I can find, you can say /XD *cache* to exclude any folder containing the substring cache, but I'm not so sure about full paths. I suspect ROBOCOPY just doesn't do this, but I wanted a second opinion. The specific application is: I want to exclude the Remote Installation Services i386 folders from a server-to-server backup, since those can be trivially copied from CD again. I want to preserve other things, such as customizations under \$OEM$\. I want to avoid having to specify each and every image explictly, if I can, since I'm sure one of these days we'll forget to add a new image name to the exclude list, and accidentally backup a gigabyte of Windows install CD. -- 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/ ~
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/ ~
RE: ROBOCOPY /XD (exclude directory) wildcards
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/ ~
Re: ROBOCOPY /XD (exclude directory) wildcards
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:23 PM, NTSysAdmin ntsysad...@optimum.bm wrote: as far as I remember...*.* is what you need. FWIW, that didn't work either. Same error. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ROBOCOPY /XD (exclude directory) wildcards
Is D shared? Robocopy has issues with non shared folders. Otherwise name it explicitly; d:\d List the entire command line here again please. Cheers. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ROBOCOPY /XD (exclude directory) wildcards On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:23 PM, NTSysAdmin ntsysad...@optimum.bm wrote: as far as I remember...*.* is what you need. FWIW, that didn't work either. Same error. -- 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/ ~
Re: ROBOCOPY /XD (exclude directory) wildcards
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:42 PM, lists li...@bdtechnology.org wrote: Is D shared? Robocopy has issues with non shared folders. Otherwise name it explicitly; d:\d The source D:\ is just a partition on the local hard disk drive. The target D is a folder in a network share on another computer. But really, it doesn't appear to be command line dependent. For example, set up a directory tree like this: CD /D C:\ MKDIR BenTest\src BenTest\dst CD BenTest\src MKDIR foo\i386 foo\other bar\i386 bar\other baz\i386 baz\other Now this will copy everything: ROBOCOPY C:\BenTest\src C:\BenTest\dst /E The below will copy everything, except for the i386 directories under foo and bar. baz will still be copied, as will the other directories. ROBOCOPY C:\BenTest\src C:\BenTest\dst /E /XD C:\BenTest\src\foo\i386 C:\BenTest\src\bar\i386 But this does not work: ROBOCOPY C:\BenTest\src C:\BenTest\dst /E /XD C:\BenTest\src\*\i386 Neither does this: ROBOCOPY C:\BenTest\src C:\BenTest\dst /E /XD C:\BenTest\src\*.*\i386 Both yield Invalid Parameter #5. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ROBOCOPY /XD (exclude directory) wildcards
IIRC the syntax is source; destination; switches. Put all the switches at the end of the command line. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ROBOCOPY /XD (exclude directory) wildcards On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:42 PM, lists li...@bdtechnology.org wrote: Is D shared? Robocopy has issues with non shared folders. Otherwise name it explicitly; d:\d The source D:\ is just a partition on the local hard disk drive. The target D is a folder in a network share on another computer. But really, it doesn't appear to be command line dependent. For example, set up a directory tree like this: CD /D C:\ MKDIR BenTest\src BenTest\dst CD BenTest\src MKDIR foo\i386 foo\other bar\i386 bar\other baz\i386 baz\other Now this will copy everything: ROBOCOPY C:\BenTest\src C:\BenTest\dst /E The below will copy everything, except for the i386 directories under foo and bar. baz will still be copied, as will the other directories. ROBOCOPY C:\BenTest\src C:\BenTest\dst /E /XD C:\BenTest\src\foo\i386 C:\BenTest\src\bar\i386 But this does not work: ROBOCOPY C:\BenTest\src C:\BenTest\dst /E /XD C:\BenTest\src\*\i386 Neither does this: ROBOCOPY C:\BenTest\src C:\BenTest\dst /E /XD C:\BenTest\src\*.*\i386 Both yield Invalid Parameter #5. -- 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/ ~
