Robocopy not copying all folders

cecile · 10 Jan 2016

Hi,

I want to use Robocopy to backup the data from my external hardrive D to a file called 'Backup' in a cluster storage W.
I only want to backup the modified and new files. In other words, I don't want to back up all the files in D every time I run Robocopy.

This is what I wrote by reading other posts on the forum:
title Backup personal files
robocopy D:\ W:\Backup /e /mir /np /tee /log+:backup_log.txt
pause

However, the script below does not back up all the files.
Any suggestion on how I can improve the robocopy script?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Golden · 15 Jan 2016

ROBOCOPY is a FOLDER copier, not a FILE copier - the source and destination syntax arguments in ROBOCOPY must reference folder names.

So your example:

Code:

robocopy D:\ W:\Backup /e /mir /np /tee /log+:backup_log.txt

needs to be modified to:

Code:

robocopy D:\Folder_1 W:\Backup /e /mir /np /tee /log+:backup_log.txt

where Folder_1 is the name of the folder on D: that requires backing up.

If you have more than one folder in D: that requires backing up, then you need to specify each folder, for example:

Code:

robocopy D:\Folder_1 W:\Backup /e /mir /np /tee /log+:backup_log.txt
robocopy D:\Folder_2 W:\Backup /e /mir /np /tee /log+:backup_log.txt
robocopy D:\Folder_3 W:\Backup /e /mir /np /tee /log+:backup_log.txt
etc.
etc.

cecile · 18 Jan 2016

Fantastic, thank you very much! It is now working very well.

Golden · 18 Jan 2016