RoboCopy: Your Data Copying Ally for IT Admins

Introduction to the Power of RoboCopy: The Admin’s Swiss Army knife for data copy move and syncing. This demonstration will introduce you to the utility's fundamental behavior so that you are ready to successfully use the many options in Robocopy. A command-line data moving tool loaded with features that make it the most used in the command-line arsenal of utilities. Mirroring, monitoring, backup, and automatic retry with powerful copy, and move capabilities. Powerful file filtering, logging, and file metadata and attribute options are all built-in to Robocopy. Features that allow you to work with junction points, symbolic links, and files that due to NTFS security are locked down.
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[@JoseFernandez-qx9wk]

In the whole Internet I don't know anybody with so much knowledge and so humble like you sr. Saludos desde Colombia. Gracias por compartir ampliamente

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Gracias José por tus amables palabras.

[@SaulEduardoo2]

The same that he says but, in Mexican spanish 🤭

[@SaulEduardoo2]

It got me amazed that robocopy continued where it left after cut the newtwork 😮!, Incredible tool!! 😊

[@TechsavvyProductions]

That's why admins love it across a WAN!

[@timhayes45]

Absolutely great walkthrough of this utility, thank you.

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Thank you for watching!

[@estebanespinabarro8337]

Agreed. All the others just turn your brain upside down. Nice tutorials is simple.

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Thank you for watching and the kind words

[@jamesrussell2601]

I have spent a lot of time researching robocopy. Had I seen this video first, I could have saved a lot of time. Excellent job!

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thanks for the feedback!

[@giovanniguarino588]

Congratulations you are a fantastic teacher. Bravissimo

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Thank you for watching1

[@patientson]

Before I start watching and understanding this great piece of a tutorial, I want to say thank you very much to you, Sir. A couple of days ago, I came short with an answer to a practical lab session I was doing to prepare myself for the A+ 220-1002 exams. You are definitely sent by patience and kindness, love and God to upload this video on Robocopy. Thank you in advance for the next and I thank the grace of patience and kindness (1 corinthians 13:4 and 1 John 4:8) for your amazing work, support and hard work.

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Thanks Donald for the kind words.

[@christophertvm]

Very useful information, thank you 👍🏽

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Thanks for watching!

[@simm2k]

Im a big fan of Lowell (and also robocopy 🙂 )

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Thank you for watching!

[@youcefyassef5672]

Great content from great teacher, thank you very much sir.

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You are very welcome

[@salvadorrobledo9419]

Had to use robocopy not too long ago for 1.5 TB. Cool little program I learned about called Easy Robocopy which is a gui that let's you check off what you want and it will create the robocopy command. I didn't understand fully the switches I was using till now thank you for the great content!

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Thanks for the comment!

[@alejandroparrello6493]

Excelent!! I never used it before! Regards from Argentina 😉 🙌

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Bienvenido a todos en argentina!

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[@marcusdutton1808]

Great video - amazingly clear exmples and explanations. Thank you!!

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Thanks for watching!

[@paolocruschelli4484]

very clear explanation! thank you!

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Glad it was helpful!

[@Sevron]

When using the /MT:n command, how can you determine the best number of threads to use to optimize the transfer speed of files? I understand that the higher number is usually better but at what point does it become too much for your CPU?

[@TechsavvyProductions]

Such a great question! I love to see viewers think about these issues! I often use Process Explorer to watch my hardware subsystems when I push intensive actions. You have limited network, disks than can be overwhelmed and of course your CPU. Your disks and network will most likely the first to become limited. Using Process Explorer will give you a good sense of your limits.

[@SSPanesar]

Superb explanation.

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Thank you for watching!

[@mowatrcm1]

Thanks again for the great content and all the hard work.👍

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My pleasure!

[@andreigiubleanu]

LV is the man !

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[@KP-kj8fs]

very knowledgeable video

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[@anmac6910]

I would like to correct an error. When copying the parent folder, you must also set the destination folder with the same name as the source folder so that all the timestamps and permissions are copied properly and there is a true 1:1 copy: For example, robocopy "C:\source_folder\test" "D:\destination_drive\test" /E /dcopy:DAT /A-:SHAR this ensures that the test folder is a true 1:1 copy robocopy "C:\source_folder\test" "D:\destination_drive" /E /dcopy:DAT /A-:SHAR is INCORRECT because the test folder is just being renamed as destination_drive with incorrect timestamps.

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Always appreciate feedback and your comments!!

[@nanosni]

Great video. Robocopy is a reliable tool. Would you consider doing a Perfmon video? How to use it to determine where a problem in performance may be.

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Perfmon is a great video option!

[@vcolet2011]

Why does my robocopy log show under line options, a different set of options I did not use ?

[@OldePhart]

Nicely done - thank you. I have a specific use case where too much info displayed doesn't help. Is there any technique or switch combination that will present ONLY the files touched and not the entire table of actions?

[@TechsavvyProductions]

Look at your log files, you have a great deal of control of the information saved to log files.

[@akretschmann6384]

More powerful than dirsync

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Thanks for watching!

[@jaimeloera1939]

Always loved doing a color 2 before a robocopy to feel like I’m in the matrix 😎

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Thanks for watching!

[@fanste7279]

Great video.

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Thanks for watching!

[@peterbalogh2646]

One question comes to mind: Can it do block level copy? ReFS deduplicated files I want to move are extremely slow. Normally on the same synology raid5 I get about 300-500MB/sec, with deduped files it is about 20-50MB/s 😕 I have 30tb+14tb to relocate.

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In general, block-level copying of ReFS deduplicated files is not recommended as it can cause issues with the deduplication metadata. When you copy a file that has been deduplicated using ReFS, the file's actual data may not be copied, but instead, a reference to the data stored in the Deduplication store is created. This reference is tracked by ReFS in the file's metadata, and if you perform a block-level copy of the file, it can cause inconsistencies between the file's metadata and the Deduplication store. Additionally, block-level copying of ReFS deduplicated files can also cause issues with file permissions and other metadata that is not stored in the Deduplication store. Therefore, it is recommended that you use standard file copy operations to copy ReFS deduplicated files, rather than block-level copying. If you need to perform a backup or migration of ReFS deduplicated files, you should use a tool that is specifically designed to work with ReFS deduplication, such as Windows Server Backup or a third-party backup solution that supports ReFS deduplication.

[@peterbalogh2646]

@TechsavvyProductions Thanks for your answers. You have described my problem well. It seems that we do have issues on system level. Server 2019 ltsc stopped at version 1809, and as I've read the performance problems are dealt with from 1903. We are on ltsc though, so this is not an option. A normal copy operation dips as low as 20mbit/s, as I copy veeam repositories. Veeam backup copy on the other hand is around 300mbit/s...

[@alphaomega5017]

Can you do a video on robocopy pertaining to batch script

[@TechsavvyProductions]

Sounds like a great topic!

[@johnsenchak1428]

I would imagine what you are showing is how distance servers and internet routers are updated from a central location Isn't their a Windows programs that does all that instead of using the command prompt

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Thanks for watching!

[@anandsinhzala1688]

Thanks sir 🙏

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Most welcome

[@ahemednor5201]

🙏🙏🌹🌹

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Thanks for watching!

[@johnsenchak1428]

Your mouth is not syncing to the sound m their is a very slight delay

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A constant problem with this video editor