I'm normally on the mac side, so i'm still learning all the foibles of Windows and Robocopy. Anyway... Background: There is a Nasuni appliance (custom linux server running SAMBA 4.3 I think) at work ...

I'm experimenting the use of Robocopy (the XP version, from the Windows XP Resource Kit) to backup a server. Robocopy is running on the local PC, making a local copy of a tree of user files from the ...

May 3, 2007 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Reader Kevin's got stacks of burned data CDs and DVDs, but doesn't want to have to switch them in and out of his CD ...

If you have a lot of files, especially small ones, the metadata becomes a higher percentage of the total bits transferred, and the lack of parallelism hurts performance. But with SMB 2.1 and the new ...

Robocopy in Windows 11/10 is a robust, flexible, configurable tool, with over 80 switches. It can handle any batch or synchronous copy you have in mind. Robocopy is designed for reliable mirroring of ...

Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration ...