Mark Lanctot wrote:
It's because it's erroring out at the end. It tries, errors, waits 30
seconds, tries again, errors, waits 30 seconds etc. I have to kill the
process.
I'm pretty sure if it completed successfully I'd get a report.
You need to tell it to not retry open files a million times (really,
that's the default retry number: 1000000). Or you can tell it skip
particular files/folders that you know you don't want backed up or that
will always be open/locked. I have a robocopy script that backs up my
Firefox application data directory and I have it skip the cache folder
as well as the ".lock" file so all runs smoothly.
Add these options:
/R:n : number of Retries on failed copies - default is 1 million.
/W:n : Wait time between retries - default is 30 seconds.
So you could do:
/R:0
That will cause robocopy to report on files it can't copy but then just
skip them.
To always skip particular files or directories (like that System Volume
Information folder you mentioned) that you know ahead of time you aren't
interested in:
/XF file [file]... : eXclude Files matching given names/paths/wildcards.
/XD dirs [dirs]... : eXclude Directories matching given names/paths.
XF and XD can be used in combination e.g.
ROBOCOPY c:\source d:\dest /XF *.doc *.xls /XD c:\unwanted /S
It's a powerful utility, but yes, there are an awful lot of options.
http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html
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