Building a backup job with robocopy I have developed a backup system using the robocopy software (part of the windows resource kit) replacing the use of the SynchToy software. For the SyncToy backup system see:
http://www.oraxcel.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1182867756 I have only replaced the synctoy statements with calls to robocopy. These are the robocopy commands I am using:
Code:
robocopy \\server\share1 d:\share1 /MIR /NDL /NFL >> robocopy_log.txt
robocopy \\server\share2 d:\share2 /MIR /NDL /NFL >> robocopy_log.txt
robocopy \\server\share3 d:\share3 /MIR /NDL /NFL >> robocopy_log.txt
robocopy \\server\share4 d:\share4 /MIR /NDL /NFL >> robocopy_log.txt
copy robocopy_log.txt "\\server\share1\backup log"
Explanation:
/MIR : Mirror job.
/NDL : No directory logging
/NFL : No file logging
It prints a nice and concise summary log:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows :: Version XP010
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Started : Sun Dec 09 15:34:13 2007
Source : \\server\share1\
Dest : d:\data\
Files : *.*
Options : *.* /NDL /NFL /S /E /COPY:DAT /PURGE /MIR /R:1000000 /W:30
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 2450 0 2450 0 0 0
Files : 39164 1 39163 0 0 0
Bytes : 2.472 g 79.4 k 2.472 g 0 0 0
Times : 0:01:08 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:01:08
Speed : 4068750 Bytes/sec.
Speed : 232.815 MegaBytes/min.
Ended : Sun Dec 09 15:35:22 2007
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