Robocopy -- Overview and usage

Symptoms

Customer is trying to move a bulk number of file and the robocopy is generating many errors.

The Windows client that is running robocopy needs full control permissions to the mounted destination volume.

To configure share permissions, you need an account with „SeDiskOperatorPrivilege“. To grant this privilege, e. g. to the „Domain Admin“ group, run the following command on your AD member server(s):

# net rpc rights grant 'SAMDOM\Domain Admins' SeDiskOperatorPrivilege -U'SAMDOM\administrator' -I dc1.samdom.example.com

Existing privileges can be reviewed by

# net rpc rights list accounts -U'SAMDOM\administrator' -I dc1.samdom.example.com

#1 -- To copy contents of C:\UserFolder to C:\FolderBackup:

Robocopy C:\UserFolder C:\FolderBackup

This is the simplest usage for Robocopy

#2 -- To copy all contents including empty directories of SourceFolder to DestinationFolder:

Robocopy C:\SourceDir C:\DestDir /E

#3 -- List only files larger than 32 MBytes(33553332 bytes) in size.

Robocopy.exe c:\sourceFolder d:\targetfolder /min:33553332 /l

List only files less than 32 MBytes(33553332 bytes) in size.

Robocopy.exe c:\sourceFolder d:\targetfolder /max:33553332 /l

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ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows

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Usage :: ROBOCOPY source destination [file [file]...] [options]

source :: Source Directory (drive:\path or \\server\share\path).

destination :: Destination Dir (drive:\path or \\server\share\path).

file :: File(s) to copy (names/wildcards: default is "*.*").

More options are shown with:

C:\ robycopy /?