Comments on: Tip of the day: Robocopy is in Vista http://www.itwriting.com/blog/301-tip-of-the-day-robocopy-is-in-vista.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Gray http://www.itwriting.com/blog/301-tip-of-the-day-robocopy-is-in-vista.html/comment-page-1#comment-141828 John Gray Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:24:25 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=301#comment-141828 Should also have said that the Windows 7 version of Robocopy is multithreaded - although I have seen comments that this feature in RichCopy causes very bad file fragmentation. (I can also record my disappointment with Richcopy, supposedly an advance on Robocopy, not coping with DST transitions nor with copying from NTFS to NAS. And that's just a couple of its faults...!) Should also have said that the Windows 7 version of Robocopy is multithreaded – although I have seen comments that this feature in RichCopy causes very bad file fragmentation. (I can also record my disappointment with Richcopy, supposedly an advance on Robocopy, not coping with DST transitions nor with copying from NTFS to NAS. And that’s just a couple of its faults…!)

]]> By: John Gray http://www.itwriting.com/blog/301-tip-of-the-day-robocopy-is-in-vista.html/comment-page-1#comment-141827 John Gray Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:18:48 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=301#comment-141827 I was delighted to find that Windows 7 includes a version of Robocopy with a switch to handle Daylight Savings Time transitions (/DST), as well as the old one to cope with copying from an NTFS file system to a NAS, whose timestamp granularity is the same as FAT - 2 seconds (/FFT). The only annoying thing is that the newer version of Robocopy doesn't run on XP or on Windows Server 2003... I was delighted to find that Windows 7 includes a version of Robocopy with a switch to handle Daylight Savings Time transitions (/DST), as well as the old one to cope with copying from an NTFS file system to a NAS, whose timestamp granularity is the same as FAT – 2 seconds (/FFT). The only annoying thing is that the newer version of Robocopy doesn’t run on XP or on Windows Server 2003…

]]> By: MrGroove http://www.itwriting.com/blog/301-tip-of-the-day-robocopy-is-in-vista.html/comment-page-1#comment-32672 MrGroove Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:11:04 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=301#comment-32672 RobyCopy... who could live without it :) RobyCopy… who could live without it :)

]]> By: Clyde Davies http://www.itwriting.com/blog/301-tip-of-the-day-robocopy-is-in-vista.html/comment-page-1#comment-31783 Clyde Davies Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:28:25 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=301#comment-31783 So do I :-D So do I :-D

]]> By: Tim http://www.itwriting.com/blog/301-tip-of-the-day-robocopy-is-in-vista.html/comment-page-1#comment-31777 Tim Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:22:46 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=301#comment-31777 Thanks Clyde, I've not tried Synctoy. Then again I actually like the CLI. Tim Thanks Clyde, I’ve not tried Synctoy. Then again I actually like the CLI.

Tim

]]> By: Clyde Davies http://www.itwriting.com/blog/301-tip-of-the-day-robocopy-is-in-vista.html/comment-page-1#comment-31776 Clyde Davies Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:11:42 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=301#comment-31776 Have a look at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx while you're at it. does much the same but easier to use for the CLI-phobe Have a look at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx while you’re at it. does much the same but easier to use for the CLI-phobe

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