Short version of what I'm trying to do is sync my Outlook files from local hard drive to my network drive at work, and I want to try and use robocopy (and a Scheduled Task) to do this nightly. At work ...

Command-line tools rule for many reasons, and Robocopy is one of the best ones.

I know robocopy is faster than the normal copy command for transferring many files over a network because of its multithreading. But for transferring a single file such as a multi-GB video, would ...

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 ...

He has loved computers since he got the Lenovo G570 in 2012. Abhishek holds a master's degree in computer applications and began his writing career in 2018. He loves writing how-to articles, listicles ...

In previous posts I’ve mentioned some ways in which this new SMB protocol may speed file copies over the network. But here’s a surprising benefit: it has permitted one of our old friends, Robocopy, to ...

If you’re looking for a little extra peace of mind, double down on your data backups. This simple Robocopy script leverages a few useful switches to make the task convenient and efficient. Windows 10 ...

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 ...