How to make a Mirrored Backup with Robocopy on Windows

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!

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June 30, 2008 • Tags: , , , , • Posted in: Windows

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