This is more of a techinical post but I need to sing the praises of this wonderful free command line program from Microsoft: Robocopy.
I have used robocopy in many of the VBScripts that I have written over the years because of it’s flexiblity and well…. its robustness (Hence the name ROBOcopy)
This little program adds a a fine level of control in the way to copy files from one location to another. Some of the things you can do are:
- Mirror a folders contents to another location, deleting anything that does not belong.
- Copy files of a certian size.
- Copy files of a certain age.
- Copy files without attibutes like hidden, system or read-only.
- Copy files without the NTFS security.
- Create a log of the copy process.
The major thing that I love about this program is that it resume the copy of a large file if it is interrupted with the /z switch. This is really useful for admins that need copy files over an unstable VPN connection.
You can find more about this command at another great resource: ss64
Robocopy Log Scanner says:
Robocopy Log Scanner is a useful utility i found that will scan the log file for errors and then email it to you, and zip it also.
September 7, 2009, 3:21 am