I have a deploy process that is currently using this robocopy command:
robocopy [source] [destination] /MIR /XF [file pattern] /XD [directory pattern]
The [destination] may have additional files or directories added to it outside this process that the [source] does not. The /MIR flag is present because if I add files or directories to [source] I want them to appear in the [destination]. Also, if I remove a file/directory from [source] that exists in [destination] I want to remove that from [destination]. However, this will also remove any of the new files/directories that may have been added to [destination].
The /XF and /XD flags appear to only restrict the source files/directories. Is there a corresponding way to exclude destination files from the copy? Something to indicate "When doing \MIR don't delete directories starting with the string 'new'," for example.
Should have run more tests before asking. It appears that amending the command to be:
robocopy [source] [destination] /MIR /XF [file pattern] /XD [source directory pattern] "new*"
Does, in fact, ignore directories in the [destination] that have "new" as the start of their name.
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I want to mirror one folder to another. However, the source folder will have many *.pdb file, most of which I want to exclude.
Root/Subfolder1/a.pdb
Root/Subfolder2/b.pdb
Root/Subfolder2/Subsubfolder/c.pdb
I want to copy only .pdb files in Subfolder1 Note that there are thousands of .pdb files and thousands folders at various sublevels - I don't want any .pdb files which are within Subfolder2, directly or in sub(subsubsub)folders.
My original attempt is:
robocopy C\:Projects\Root D:\SomewhereElse\ /MIR /XF "C:\Projects\Root\Subfolder2\*.pdb"
This, however, does not work.
If I change it for this:
robocopy C\:Projects\Root D:\SomewhereElse\ /MIR /XF "C:\Projects\Root\Subfolder2\.pdb"
it works, but doesn't do what I want it to do.
After some experimenting, I figured out that the /XF won't work if there are both a slash () and an asterix (*) within the same path.
Why would anyone do this? How can I achieve what I want? Why is this so stupid?
I have a problem with robocopy and with extra files in particular.
I would like to run robocopy to keep two directories almost in "sync" and thus it would be natural to use the /MIR option along with /MON:x to keep the process alive.
I need to copy a list of files, let's assume for example *.tif, from SRC to DST and it is ok when robocopy is removing from DST extra files that matches the file pattern.
But with the /MIR option, robocopy is removing all extra files even if they are not matching the *.tif
I tried to use the /XX option, but this is actually preserving all extra files. I believed I could add a path or filename to the /XX but it is not accepted.
I tried to use the /XF *.png option in order to exclude the png files, but this is only applied on the SRC and not on the DST.
Does a solution to this problem exist?
Thanks in advance for your help,
I am using omake for my project build
As part of my delivery build I need to copy some delivery related files into a folder
How I can use robocopy execution where I can only copy the interested files(which are selected by running a for loop on a list I have)
Into the folder.
List_paths = filepath1
Filepath2
.
FilepathN
For file in list_paths
%exec robocopy $(file,A) $(destin)
End for
By doing that robocopy always complains me that there is no such file by adding \ at the end of eCh file and for destin folder too.
I Understand that robocopy just works fine for copying files from one folder to other but I have condition to copy only selective files from folders (for which I have the list of paths)
Please help on this.
If you have a textfile with complete patnames (i.e list.txt), with content:
d:\temp\a.sql
d:\temp\b.sql
d:\temp\c.sql
and a batchfile roboDo.bat like this:
#echo off
SET dest=d:\temp\temp\
FOR /f "useback tokens=1" %%f IN (`type list.txt`) DO (
ECHO copying %%~nxf from %%~dpf to %dest%
ROBOCOPY /NP /NJH /NJS %%~dpf %dest% %%~nxf >NUL
)
running the batchfile wil output this:
D:\TEMP>robodo
copying a.sql from d:\TEMP\ to d:\temp\temp\
copying b.sql from d:\TEMP\ to d:\temp\temp\
copying c.sql from d:\TEMP\ to d:\temp\temp\
Here is the simplified version of the situation I'm dealing with:
Folder Files1 containing a.txt, b.txt, c.txt
Folder Files2 containing a.txt, b.txt, c.txt
I want to find the best way to compare these files. All I need to know is which files are different. For example I need to know a.txt is different from a.txt in Files2 folder (I don't need to know what is different inside them).
Right now I load both in Notepad++ and use the compare function, but this is a pain.
I tried fc, but I'm getting cryptic output.
You could use Robocopy for that
robocopy c:\Temp\different\folder1 c:\temp\different\folder2 /e /l /ns /njs /njh /ndl /fp /log:c:\temp\whatIsDifferent.txt
Newer c:\Temp\different\folder1\b.txt
New File c:\Temp\different\folder1\d.txt
the key parameter is /L which allows you to "compare" instead of actually copying.
From Robocopy /? help
::
:: Logging Options :
::
/L :: List only - don't copy, timestamp or delete any files.
Do a dry-run (/l) with robocopy:
robocopy C:\files1 C:\files2 /njh /njs /ndl /l
/l Specifies that files are to be listed only (and not copied, deleted, or time stamped).
Rsync can be used to do this.
rsync -rvnc —delete delme/ delme2/
This will show you which files differ in the 2 directories.
See http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/how-to-compare-the-content-of-two-or-more-directories-automatically/ for me details.
There is a script running which mirrors a bunch of folders from one volume to another. The problem is that now there are going to be subdirectories within those folders at the destination which are not part of the original mirroring script. They are standalone subdirectories and I don't want them purged once the mirroring kicks in. Is there a way for me to use the /xd switch in robocopy wherein I'd be able to exclude the destination subdirectories.
Example:
robocopy "\\hq04t2fis202\archive\dr" "\\hq04t3fis202\archive\dr" /mir /xd "\\hq04t3fis202\archive\dr\*\hq04s2dba301"
In the above example, there are several directories under \\hq04t2fis202\archive\dr that are being mirrored. And at the destination, once these directories are mirrored from the source, there is another script which dumps separate subdirectories within each of those directories. So what I want to do is somehow use the /xd switch to avoid purging those subdirectories at the destination.
Also, in the above example, in the /xd switch, I'm using the "*" wildcard to mean that I want to include all the directories that fall under the "\\hq04t3fis202\archive\dr" root folder at the destination.
Need help and suggestions as to whether this is possible, and if it is then how can I do it. So far I've tried and tested many other switches like /xo, /xx, but none of them solve my purpose.
Also, /xx would work except that now it won't delete any folders at the destination at all and it wouldn't be mirroring.
Hopefully I'm not overly confusing everyone here. Let me know if you have any questions.
When i tried the solution with /XD i found, that the path to exclude should be the source path - not the destination.
e.g. this Works
robocopy c:\test\a c:\test\b /MIR /XD c:\test\a\leavethisdiralone\
Rather than creating empty directories in source to exclude, you can supply the full destination path to the /XD switch to have the destination directories untouched
robocopy "%SOURCE_PATH%" "%DEST_PATH%" /MIR /XD "%DEST_PATH%"\hq04s2dba301
The issue is that even though we add a folder to skip list it will be deleted if it does not exist.
The solution is to add both the destination and the source folder with full path.
I will try to explain the different scenarios and what happens below, based on my experience.
Starting folder structure:
d:\Temp\source\1.txt
d:\Temp\source\2\2.txt
Command:
robocopy D:\Temp\source D:\Temp\dest /MIR
This will copy over all the files and folders that are missing and deletes all the files and folders that cannot be found in the source
Let's add a new folder and then add it to the command to skip it.
New structure:
d:\Temp\source\1.txt
d:\Temp\source\2\2.txt
d:\Temp\source\3\3.txt
Command:
robocopy D:\Temp\source D:\Temp\dest /MIR /XD "D:\Temp\source\3"
If I add /XD with the source folder and run the command it all seems good the command it wont copy it over.
Now add a folder to the destination to get this setup:
d:\Temp\source\1.txt
d:\Temp\source\2\2.txt
d:\Temp\source\3\3.txt
d:\Temp\dest\1.txt
d:\Temp\dest\2\2.txt
d:\Temp\dest\3\4.txt
If I run the command it is still fine, 4.txt stays there 3.txt is not copied over. All is fine.
But, if I delete the source folder "d:\Temp\source\3" then the destination folder and the file are deleted even though it is on the skip list
1 D:\Temp\source\
*EXTRA Dir -1 D:\Temp\dest\3\
*EXTRA File 4 4.txt
1 D:\Temp\source\2\
If I change the command to skip the destination folder instead then the folder is not deleted, when the folder is missing from the source.
robocopy D:\Temp\source D:\Temp\dest /MIR /XD "D:\Temp\dest\3"
On the other hand if the folder exists and there are files it will copy them over and delete them:
1 D:\Temp\source\3\
*EXTRA File 4 4.txt
100% New File 4 3.txt
To make sure the folder is always skipped and no files are copied over even if the source or destination folder is missing we have to add both to the skip list:
robocopy D:\Temp\source D:\Temp\dest /MIR /XD "d:\Temp\source\3" "D:\Temp\dest\3"
After this no matters if the source folder is missing or the destination folder is missing, robocopy will leave it as it is.
The way you can exclude a destination directory while using the /mir is by making sure the destination directory also exists on the source. I went into my source drive and created blank directories with the same name as on the destination, and then added that directory name to the /xd. It successfully mirrored everything while excluding the directory on the source, thereby leaving the directory on the destination intact.
The argument order seems to matter... to exclude subdirectories, I used
robocopy \\source\folder C:\destinationfolder /XD * /MIR
...and that works for me (Windows 10 copy from Windows Server 2016)
Try my way :
robocopy.exe "Desktop\Test folder 1" "Desktop\Test folder 2" /XD "C:\Users\Steve\Desktop\Test folder 2\XXX dont touch" /MIR
Had to put /XD before /MIR while including the full Destination Source directly after /XD.