RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-08-01 Thread Crawford, Scott
files are still there even though we copied the long file name first. ---snip--- From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug? In your example, if you

RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-08-01 Thread Crawford, Scott
I'm up for that. Any idea how I can find one? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 3:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug? I don't know any Windows File System MVPs, but I might suggest that you pass this along

Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-08-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug? In your example, if you reverse the order of the echo commands you'll only end up with one file in the CollisionTest directory because the long file

Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-30 Thread Jeff Bunting
-snip- -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 3:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug? Turns out that this issue was a known issue that was fixed in W2K SP3 and NT SP5

Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-30 Thread Kurt Buff
System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug? Turns out that this issue was a known issue that was fixed in W2K SP3 and NT SP5.  Unfortunately it seems to be back.  Maybe I should spin up a W2K box to do this copy :) Anybody have any better options? http://support.microsoft.com/kb

RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
[mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 7:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug? You mean short name generation on the server? That's on my list of desperation ideas, mainly cuz I've never done it so I'm not sure exactly what the effects

RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
, July 29, 2011 3:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug? Turns out that this issue was a known issue that was fixed in W2K SP3 and NT SP5. Unfortunately it seems to be back. Maybe I should spin up a W2K box to do this copy :) Anybody have any better options? http

Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-29 Thread Kurt Buff
System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug? You mean short name generation on the server? That's on my list of desperation ideas, mainly cuz I've never done it so I'm not sure exactly what the effects will be. Does that delete all existing short names? -Original Message

Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-29 Thread Kurt Buff
Subject: Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug? Turn off short filenames? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 15:51, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: I’m having some strange problem where robocopy /mir doesn’t actually, well…mirror. I’m pretty sure it has something to do with short file names

RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
turn up before I decide how plausible that is. From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 5:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug? Yes, on the server. Aside from avoiding this problem, it will speed up (somewhat) your file access. It's

RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
problem will fix robocopy. From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug? What version of robocopy? Have you snagged a copy from a newer OS? Specifically, try the one from the Win2k3 ResKit, or from

Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-29 Thread Kurt Buff
*Subject:* Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug? ** ** What version of robocopy? Have you snagged a copy from a newer OS? Specifically, try the one from the Win2k3 ResKit, or from Win7/Win2k8. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 13:41, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Turns out

Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
I'm having some strange problem where robocopy /mir doesn't actually, well...mirror. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with short file names. The files that are causing problems are named: Short name Long name OLIVER~1.WPD OLIVER-M.GD2.wpd OLIVER-M.GRD OLIVER~3.WPD

Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-28 Thread Kurt Buff
Turn off short filenames? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 15:51, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: I’m having some strange problem where robocopy /mir doesn’t actually, well…mirror.  I’m pretty sure it has something to do with short file names. The files that are causing problems are named:

RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
: Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug? Turn off short filenames? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 15:51, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: I’m having some strange problem where robocopy /mir doesn’t actually, well…mirror.  I’m pretty sure