Why use robocopy? It’s a good tool for a specific task but this is not the one. You can simply use what cmd already gives you: for /r %f in (*) do @copy “%f” target This will essentially “flatten” your directory hierarchy. for /r will walk a directory tree recursively, looking for file names matching … Read more
To answer all your questions: Can I use ROBOCOPY for this? Yes, RC should fit your requirements (simplicity, only copy what needed) What exactly does it mean to exclude? It will exclude copying – RC calls it skipping Would the /XO option copy only newer files, not files of the same age? Yes, RC will … Read more
Adding this answer per request. Based on Asaf’s solution, and adding skrebbel’s comment. You can simplify the check to: robocopy <opt> <src> <tgt> if %errorlevel% leq 1 exit 0 else exit %errorlevel% As kindly remarked in the comments, you may want to adjust the ‘1’: It depends on what your operation should treat as an … Read more
After some trial and error and observing the results (in other words, I hacked it), I got it to work. Quotes ARE required to use a path name with spaces. The trick is there MUST be a space after the path names before the closing quote…like this… robocopy “C:\Source Path ” “C:\Destination Path ” /option1 … Read more
From the documentation: /is Includes the same files. /it Includes “tweaked” files. “Same files” means files that are identical (name, size, times, attributes). “Tweaked files” means files that have the same name, size, and times, but different attributes. robocopy src dst sample.txt /is # copy if attributes are equal robocopy src dst sample.txt /it # … Read more
I haven’t found a way to do so. Instead I use PowerShell to do the copy and track progress. This might be of use: Custom RoboCopy Progress Bar in PowerShell
Restartable mode (/Z) has to do with a partially-copied file. With this option, should the copy be interrupted while any particular file is partially copied, the next execution of robocopy can pick up where it left off rather than re-copying the entire file. That option could be useful when copying very large files over a … Read more
Robocopy, or “Robust File Copy”, is a command-line directory replication command. It has been available as part of the Windows Resource Kit starting with Windows NT 4.0, and was introduced as a standard feature of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. robocopy c:\Sourcepath c:\Destpath /E /XC /XN /XO To elaborate (using Hydrargyrum, HailGallaxar … Read more
You don’t mention if it has to be batch only, but if you can use ROBOCOPY, try this: ROBOCOPY C:\Source C:\Destination data.zip info.txt /E EDIT: Changed the /S parameter to /E to include empty folders.