How to make a Mirrored Backup with Robocopy on Windows
Jun 30th, 2008 by jeffmcneill
XCOPY was always my friend, it has some great memory management features. However it required scripting to get anything like a mirror of a directory structure, and it didn’t have shortcut features of copying only the changed part of a file.
Enter Robocopy (Wikipedia), yay! This is a Microsoft command-line utility (free) that comes in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit that also has a GUI available.
The Wikipedia article has great information, as does the 35 page doc file that comes with the GUI. But it is super simple to set up a mirror script:
robocopy.exe c:/directory e:/backup MIR Z
There is a full list of robocopy switches at atlex.nl
Bye bye XCOPY, hello ROBOCOPY!
