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March 5, 2009 at 06:45 AM
solshakdwn

using Robocopy with windows XP professional

by solshakdwn . Updated 17 years, 3 months ago

key things to mention;
Robocopy has already been installed on the workstation but I can not get the command to work.
I am not an admin user on the system..Does this matter?

Here is my sample script and error message received after attempting to run it on the command prompt;

C:\>@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
SET _source=\\E:\Backups Backups\backup.bkf
SET _dest=\\Y:\backup area Backups\PC\Backups
SET _what=/COPYALL /B /SEC /MIR
:: /COPYALL ::COPY ALL file info
:: /B :: copy files in Backup mode
:: /SEC :: copy files with SECurity
:: /MIR :: MIRror a directory tree

SET _options=/R:0 /W:0 /LOG:Mylogfile.txt /NFL /NDL
:: /R:n :: number of Retries
:: /LOG :: Output log file
:: /NFL :: No file logging
:: /NDL :: No dir logging

ROBOCOPY %_source% %_dest% %_what% %_options%
‘ROBOCOPY’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I used a sample script I downloaded and made some changes. I left the comments in there just for understanding.

What am I doing wrong?

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