robocopy - XP kit

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I'm using the robocopy from XP. http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html

I want to the sync files/directories between source and destination.
I want it to skip if the destination files/directories already exist.
To speed up the sync, I use /XO option but it's not doing what I want.
I observe is that I have 300MB files, it will take a long time to sync
even thought both source and destination are match exactly.
I try the command again and again. It's not skipping, same result of
length in syncing.

What am I doing? Thx.

robocopy.exe C:\source D:\destination /MIR /R:3 /NP /NS /NC /NFL /NDL /
XO

/XO : eXclude Older - if destination file exists and is the same date
or newer than the source - don't bother to
overwrite it.
 
Slickuser said this on 11/25/2009 4:18 PM:
I'm using the robocopy from XP. http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html

I want to the sync files/directories between source and destination.
I want it to skip if the destination files/directories already exist.
To speed up the sync, I use /XO option but it's not doing what I want.
I observe is that I have 300MB files, it will take a long time to sync
even thought both source and destination are match exactly.
I try the command again and again. It's not skipping, same result of
length in syncing.

What am I doing? Thx.

robocopy.exe C:\source D:\destination /MIR /R:3 /NP /NS /NC /NFL /NDL /
XO

/XO : eXclude Older - if destination file exists and is the same date
or newer than the source - don't bother to
overwrite it.
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This isn't a solution, just that I have the same concerns.

I'm using robocopy too, just the /MIR command. And I've discovered
that it takes like 4 minutes to check out like 2 gigs of files. I too
thought it would take 10 seconds to copy the one new file. I feel
its having to read every directory to at least look for
date/time/size/name differences. I've turned on verbose directory
printout and its running through all the folders. I had a game backed
up and it had 1000's of files in some 40+ folders and quite deep too.
I finally zipped it. Much faster.
 
Slickuser said:
I'm using the robocopy from XP. http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html

I want to the sync files/directories between source and destination.
I want it to skip if the destination files/directories already exist.
To speed up the sync, I use /XO option but it's not doing what I want.
I observe is that I have 300MB files, it will take a long time to sync
even thought both source and destination are match exactly.
I try the command again and again. It's not skipping, same result of
length in syncing.

What am I doing? Thx.
Click to expand...

Using the wrong program?

Try http://www.2brightsparks.com/index.html
 
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