You are new around here aren't you? :) He's been saying that since at least 1998 or 1999...
From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 5:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Robocopy reliability And I think I need to trademark your new slogan: "There's a bat for that." From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 2:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Robocopy reliability Not nearly as flexible. Try to use COPY to copy only the new files of a multi GB/TB share... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker<http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market... On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Tigran K <tigr...@gmail.com<mailto:tigr...@gmail.com>> wrote: He was saying we should use just plain old copy. -T On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Matthew W. Ross <mr...@ephrataschools.org<mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org>> wrote: I have never had a problem with Robocopy. It did exactly what I told it to do and gave me detailed information on what it did. I could not ask for more from a command line copy utility. I'm sensing that your Boss has a bias, perhaps due to a bad experience he had previously. If so, what does _he_ recommend? Maybe he has some awesome software I've never heard of. (It wouldn't be the first time!) --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com<mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com>] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com<mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>] Sent: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:08:33 -0800 Subject: RE: Robocopy reliability > 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<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. 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