Using Task Scheduler fails to run RoboCopy.

Firstly.



Apologies. After posting that Synctoy did not list as folders and sub-folder I realised I was looking at the preview in Synctoy and had not run the program, hence the long list of individual files. I then tried again on my music folder and it worked fine with all sub-folders copied along with their 6000 files! I felt a right idiot but I guess we all get it wrong sometimes...

If there is a way to use Robocopy with Task Scheduler then that would be great, as I can then use both to backup to seperate drives.

Golden. The files I am copying at present are these;

robocopy "I:\DATA" "M:\DATA" /e /np /tee /mt:4 /log:my_backup_log.txt
robocopy "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Money 2005" "M:\Money File Backups" /e /np /tee /mt:4 /log+:my_backup_log.txt
robocopy "C:\Users\Alan\Documents\Outlook Files" "M:\Outlook Files - NEW 21 03 2012" /e /np /tee /mt:4 /log+:my_backup_log.txt
robocopy "C:\Users\Alan\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\00nrkh7f.default" "M:\Mozilla File Backups" /e /np /tee /mt:4 /log+:my_backup_log.txt
robocopy "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Queries" "M:\Queries Alans Address Book 02.xls" /e /np /tee /mt:4 /log+:my_backup_log.txt
robocopy "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Half-Life 2" "M:\Half-Life 2" /e /np /tee /mt:4 /log+:my_backup_log.txt
robocopy "C:\Users\Alan\Documents\My Phone Calls" "M:Users\Alan\Documents\My Phone Calls" /e /np /tee /mt:4 /log+:my_backup_log.txt
robocopy "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\12161089" "M:Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\12161089" /e /np /tee /mt:4 /log+:my_backup_log.txt
pause

Regards
Alan.

Thank you for you help, things did not go to plan, I have tried this 3 times and each time the 'Shutting Down screen appears with the cursor for about 4 minutes each shutdown, at that point I hit the reset button to reboot the PC.
As you can see from the screenshot below I have the test.bat file on the desktop and it's set to run as administrator, the shutdown properties box shows C:\Users\Alan\Desktop\test.bat which seems fine. When I click on 'Show Files' the screen you see below appears; 'backup_log.txt' So something does not seem to be right somewhere

I do not want to cause you any more problems and think it may be less problematical to put a post-it reminder on my monitor!

Regards
Alan.

Need to go out but just thought of something, in the test.bat script it ends at 'pause' maybe the shutdown will not shutdown as the script is 'paused' and not finished?

I will try it tomorrow and see if it works without the pause.

Hi Golden.
Removing the 'pause' cured the problem

Where can I find the 'Log' as it does not appear on the desktop on rebooting? It does appear if I run the file without shutting down.

Once again thank you for your help.

Regards
Alan.

Thank you.
The backup_log, when run from the shutdown script resides at C:\Windows\System 32\Group Policy\Machine\Scripts\Shutdown
When run from the desktop the Backup_log is on the desktop, if I need to see copy I can now find it either way.

I have found a Robocopy switch list, well I think that's what you'd call it. I lists all the /e /s /sec commands,

I have removed the /mir from your script above and now have:
robocopy I:\DATA M:\Backup_DATA /e /np /log:backup_log.txt

as I want any files deleted on my I: drive not to be deleted on my M: drive in case I find I need it later.
In my previous robocopy scripts I have /mt:4, this, in my list shows as Multithreaded copying. What does this mean? The number of lines of scripts? Or something else?

Can I add files to the script I now have;
robocopy I:\DATA M:\Backup_DATA /e /np /log:backup_log.txt

and add my own files to theM:Backup_DATA folder? and would I need to add the /mt [:n] for the number of lines added below - /mt:3?
robocopy C:\system32 M:\Backup_DATA /e /np /log:backup_log.txt
robocopy D:\Gardening M:\Backup_DATA /e /np /log:backup_log.txt

Sorry if these are silly questions, Guessing is fine if it works but a disaster if it goes wrong!

Regards
Alan.