Can someone explain to me why when I do an /XF *.bak Robocopy bombs but with no * it's fine? All the documentation I find says to use *.bak.
________________________________ From: N Parr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 9:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: robocopy script - deleting aged folders I was just wanting to do a /d with no date qualifier. Looks like /MIR is better because it delete destination files and folders that no longer exist. Although in my case where I'm just trying to do a quick backup for users I don't really want to delete anything so I can restore it quickly to them if they accidently deleted it. So basically I want to do a /mir without a /purge. So /mir isn't really the same as /d ________________________________ From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 9:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: robocopy script - deleting aged folders /MIR mirrors a directory tree. The question was how to do the equivalent of /D in xcopy, which is: /D:m-d-y Copies files changed on or after the specified date. If no date is given, copies only those files whose source time is newer than the destination time. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: robocopy script - deleting aged folders Am I missing something, isn't that what /mir is supposed to do? On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:06 AM, N Parr <[email protected]> wrote: But I don't want to go back a specific date, I just want it to copy the file and replace it if it's been changed. ________________________________ From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: robocopy script - deleting aged folders /MAXAGE:n Excludes files with a Last Modified Date older than n days or specified date. If n is less than 1900, then n is expressed in days. Otherwise, n is a date expressed as YYYYMMDD. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 ________________________________ From: N Parr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: robocopy script - deleting aged folders Another question about robocopy. How do you do the equivalent of and xcopy /d in robocopy? ________________________________ From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: robocopy script - deleting aged folders You need /MOVE see below. /MOV only does files. /MOVE does files and directories: /MOV Moves files (that is, deletes source files after copying). /MOVE Moves files and directories (that is, deletes source files and directories after copying). Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: robocopy script - deleting aged folders I have a ROBOCOPY batch file question please: C:\Parcams is a directory that accumulates dated security camera snapshots. The snapshots for each day are stored in a sub-directory, named after that date, i.e., C:\Parcams\parcams-12-30-2009 I have prepared a script for purging files and folders that are greater than "n" days old. However, I have not quite got the script right. It successfully deletes the files inside the dated directories, but it leaves the empty directories behind. pic: http://screencast.com/t/OWFlYmEy Here is the text of the script: mkdir c:\dump robocopy C:\PARCAMS C:\dump /E /MOV /MINAGE:60 /R:10 rmdir C:\dump /s /q Here is a screenshot of the results of the batch file: http://screencast.com/t/ZjMyMzVjN Any suggested tweaks? I'd like to have the script remove those empty directories too. Thanks! ~Greg ________________________________ This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. 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