Comments on System.What?: Unstoppable File Copying With Robocopy

Hey Mike,I found these suggestions on stack overfl...

2008-12-21T18:01:00.000-08:00

Hey Mike,

I found these suggestions on stack overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18172/copying-files-over-an-intermittent-network-connection). You could also potentially try tera copy (http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php).

Good luck,
Tyler

I'd like to see a utility like robocopy that can s...

2008-12-18T09:46:00.000-08:00

I'd like to see a utility like robocopy that can skip files on an error, complete the rest of the job, then retry the errors for a specified number of times. Anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks AC (Andrew Connell mayhaps?). I'll give it ...

2008-11-16T23:51:00.000-08:00

Thanks AC (Andrew Connell mayhaps?). I'll give it a try and let you know.

Best,
Tyler

Hello. AC here. Stumbled across this post via DZon...

2008-11-16T16:20:00.000-08:00

Hello. AC here. Stumbled across this post via DZone.

"My only wish is that I could get this utility to call some code once it's done (for notification)."

You could wrap it in a batch file. You could call something simple like this with the same params you use when you call robocopy:

robocopy %*
if "0"=="%errorlevel%" (
:: notify success here
) else (
:: notify failure here
)

There are other ways to do it but I shy away from cleverness.

Nice moves Ryan, thanks for the tip!

2008-11-13T16:49:00.000-08:00

Nice moves Ryan, thanks for the tip!

If you're pushing a file to a machine and don't wa...

2008-11-13T12:23:00.000-08:00

If you're pushing a file to a machine and don't want to keep checking the transfer progress, Robocopy sets the "Date Modified" at 1/1/1980 5pm until the transfer is finished, even if the transfer is interrupted, it'll stay at 1980 until the the file is complete. Pretty handy if you star a transfer for someone, they can just check the destination file to see when it's done! (the /ETA switch is pretty cool too...)