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Automatic File Copy

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by rick

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How do you automate in Win2K server a copy of a file in a private directory to a public directory every night? Both are located on the server. Want to keep permissions at both sites the same.

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by ins413

You have two options. You can use xcopy with the /o option to keep the permissions the same. You can also look into robocopy which is a very powerful tool included in the W2K resource kit. Bot work well but I definitely prefer using robocopy. I just used it on a job recently, and moved the entire file structure from one server to another while keeping all permissions intact, and not one lost file. It is very easy to write a batch file and use task scheduler to run the batch file at any designated time.

Hope this works.

Norm

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