I just looked at the docs I have.. The version I have is 1.95 and it may be newer then what I used then. However it appears that there is a Z option that I was not aware of. This is what I found in the read me
" Restarting from the Point of Failure Normally, Robocopy restarts failed copies from the beginning of the file. You can override this default behavior with the /Z switch, which specifies restartable copies. With /Z, failed copies restart from the point of failure rather than the beginning of the file. There is one exception: If the size or time stamp of a file has been modified between retries, Robocopy restarts from the beginning of the file. " In my case I was copying over 14 gb of directories from a NT4 server to a Netapp filer over a 100mb pipe.. It was painful and time consuming to have to start over after the copy failed which delayed the migration project even longer. I am glad that this new version has the new option. Peace, Jose Medeiros ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Yandi Harjadi Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact I've tried the robocopy with the cmd file, it doesn't stop copy when 1 of the file is locked / being used, instead it will give you the list of file being locked or can not be copy inside the log file and continue to copy the next file. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact Thanks for the feedback.. I'll have to give it a try the next time I have to decommission a NT 4 server with 500 home directories to a Netapp filer. :-) Jose :-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact It's a solid tool that MCS uses for consolidation of multiple systems to one (think a bunch of file servers NT 4, Win2k, whatever), or for hardware to hardware copy after the OS is installed. Nice thing is it brings over the security and is a bit easier for the command-line challenged, or when there are a number of pick this, don't copy this, type decisions that need to be made. Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact Hi Rick, I have not had any need to try yet and I was just wondering if any one liked it, had any problems with it and how it compares to RoboCopy. It seems to be a take off of Fastlane's server consolidator that was written for Microsoft several years back. test Jose -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact Yep - what assist do you need, or what information related to it? Happy to help.... Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 6:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact Has anyone had any experience using the Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/upgrading/nt4/tooldocs/msfsc. mspx Jose --------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 4:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact I don't want to seem like I am knocking Robocopy, however from my experience Robocopy also does the same thing. It will stop when a file is locked or in use. It does not copy at the block level like rsync. It is a very useful tool but beware of it's limitations. (Although the version I used was from the 2000 resource kit, so if there has been improvements I may be mistaken). Jose -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 3:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact Robocopy is my FRS engine for Dfs. :) :m:dsm:cci:mvp -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 4:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jorge de Almeida Pinto > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact > > My experience with XCOPY is that with large amounts of data > it suddendly quits. Jorge, Try XXCopy. Works great. 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