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I'm skipping the Windows File Explorer and using this 30-year-old command-line tool to move files

Command-line tools rule for many reasons, and Robocopy is one of the best ones.
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Robocopy is still the fastest way to copy thousands of files on Windows, and I wasted years not using it

Windows is a bundle of both CLI and GUI tools. We use the GUI ones more because they serve a broader use case and are convenient to use. For file copying and moving, I hadn't ventured much outside the ...
Ars Technica

Need help with configuring and troubleshooting a Robocopy Script!!

Ok, sorry about the lack of specifics before. Here goes then. I'm attempting to use Robocopy w/Windows Scheduled Tasks to auto-copy a folder (backup) from a Workstation computer (WinXP SP3); to our ...
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Robocopy Server Side Copy mojo

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 ...
XDA Developers

I stopped using third-party file transfer tools after discovering Robocopy

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 ...

Every night at 2 AM, my PC backs itself up

I used to drag and copy files to an external hard drive only when I remembered to do so. I wouldn't know when I last did it ...