On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I believe the default rule is to copy any files which appear
>> different or absent in the destination. Files which are older are
>> still "different".
>
> I thought I have only seen older file's copies when I use switches such as
> /IS (Include Same).
Okay, just checked, and at least for me, ROBOCOPY appears to
consider "older" to be "different" and thus "should copy". See
transcript below. /IS would copy even if the files appear to be
identical (same size and time).
Ben>mkdir from to
Ben>touch from\foo
Ben>sleep 10
Ben>touch to\foo
Ben>robocopy from to
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows :: Version XP026
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Started : Tue May 22 11:46:12 2012
Source : H:\foo\from\
Dest : H:\foo\to\
Files : *.*
Options : *.* /COPY:DAT /R:1000000 /W:30
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 H:\foo\from\
100% Older 0 foo
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 1 0 1 0 0 0
Files : 1 1 0 0 0 0
Bytes : 0 0 0 0 0 0
Times : 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00
Ended : Tue May 22 11:46:12 2012
Ben>
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