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Chris
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 Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:59 am Post subject: Looking for folder checker |
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Hi everyone,
I am using the Microsoft Robocopy utility to mirror one of my hard drives to another hard drive. At the end of the mirror, Robocopy informs me that there is a single extra folder on the backup drive (i.e. there is a folder in the destination that is no longer in the source). However, I cannot make Robocopy tell me what folder that is so I can go in and manually delete it. Even when I use the switch that says 'make Robocopy list any extra files' Robocopy refuses to tell me what the folder is. So, does anyone know of a utility that can simply compare two drives and tell me what folder is in the destination that is no longer in the source? I've just tried WinMerge, but it compares each file in each folder - and with a few hundred thousand files on the drive, it's going to take a long time (too long) to complete. I just need a utility to just say "ok, there is a folder on drive a, and it is also on drive b. folder2 on drive a, oops, it is not on drive b, I better report it" |
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REM
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:29 am Post subject: Re: Looking for folder checker |
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Chris <reply@to.newsgroup.only> wrote:
I am using the Microsoft Robocopy utility to mirror one of my hard drives to another hard drive. At the end of the mirror, Robocopy informs me that there is a single extra folder on the backup drive (i.e. there is a folder in the destination that is no longer in the source). However, I cannot make Robocopy tell me what folder that is so I can go in and manually delete it. Even when I use the switch that says 'make Robocopy list any extra files' Robocopy refuses to tell me what the folder is. So, does anyone know of a utility that can simply compare two drives and tell me what folder is in the destination that is no longer in the source? I've just tried WinMerge, but it compares each file in each folder - and with a few hundred thousand files on the drive, it's going to take a long time (too long) to complete. I just need a utility to just say "ok, there is a folder on drive a, and it is also on drive b. folder2 on drive a, oops, it is not on drive b, I better report it" |
The last time that I used xxcopy it was nagging badly. Here is a good description contrasting xcopy, xxcopy, and robocopy:
http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy30.htm
I think that I'd format the destination and just use:
xcopy C:\*.* D: /s (copies files & directories that are not empty)
or:
xcopy /s /h (also copies hidden and system files)
more (will show the various switches available) |
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Frank Bohan
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for folder checker |
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"Chris" <reply@to.newsgroup.only> wrote in message news:n6lu83tj5qa10bhtbj5c5p7ucklcr5974l@4ax.com...
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Hi everyone,
I am using the Microsoft Robocopy utility to mirror one of my hard drives to another hard drive. At the end of the mirror, Robocopy informs me that there is a single extra folder on the backup drive (i.e. there is a folder in the destination that is no longer in the source). However, I cannot make Robocopy tell me what folder that is so I can go in and manually delete it. Even when I use the switch that says 'make Robocopy list any extra files' Robocopy refuses to tell me what the folder is. So, does anyone know of a utility that can simply compare two drives and tell me what folder is in the destination that is no longer in the source? I've just tried WinMerge, but it compares each file in each folder - and with a few hundred thousand files on the drive, it's going to take a long time (too long) to complete. I just need a utility to just say "ok, there is a folder on drive a, and it is also on drive b. folder2 on drive a, oops, it is not on drive b, I better report it"
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Chris |
Two possible solutions:
1. SyncBack. If it works like its payware cousin (SyncBackSE) it will do what you want.
HP SyncBack http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/
2. Use File List Generator to produce file (or folder) lists of each drive as .csv files. A simple side-by-side comparison should enable you to find the elusive folder. FLG is very quick, and I think this would be the quicker way.
File List Generator http://home.a03.itscom.net/tsuzu/programing/en/
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Frank Bohan
¶ Incorrigible punster -- Do not incorrige. |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:20 am Post subject: Re: Looking for folder checker |
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 21:42:33 +0100, "Frank Bohan" <franbo@sparkingwire.com> wrote:
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Two possible solutions:
1. SyncBack. If it works like its payware cousin (SyncBackSE) it will do what you want.
HP SyncBack http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/
2. Use File List Generator to produce file (or folder) lists of each drive as .csv files. A simple side-by-side comparison should enable you to find the elusive folder. FLG is very quick, and I think this would be the quicker way.
File List Generator http://home.a03.itscom.net/tsuzu/programing/en/
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Frank Bohan
¶ Incorrigible punster -- Do not incorrige. |
Hi everyone,
Thanks for the replies. I will go with suggestion #2 of Frank's to start with - I've only just recently got that nagware xxcopy off my system (it's what Robocopy replaced *lol*), so I would like to avoid it if possible. xxcopy used to be a good program, but I found that as the version number got higher, that nag screen about "you've been using xxcopy for x number of days now, are you sure you don't want to buy the pro version" was getting more and more frequent - and it was problems that nag screen was causing with unattended backups that caused me to purge it from my system.
Anyway, I will generate two file listings with File List Generator, and compare them and post back here with the results. |
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Chris
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:40 am Post subject: Re: Looking for folder checker |
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:20:35 +1000, reply@to.newsgroup.only wrote:
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Hi everyone,
Thanks for the replies. I will go with suggestion #2 of Frank's to start with - I've only just recently got that nagware xxcopy off my system (it's what Robocopy replaced *lol*), so I would like to avoid it if possible. xxcopy used to be a good program, but I found that as the version number got higher, that nag screen about "you've been using xxcopy for x number of days now, are you sure you don't want to buy the pro version" was getting more and more frequent - and it was problems that nag screen was causing with unattended backups that caused me to purge it from my system.
Anyway, I will generate two file listings with File List Generator, and compare them and post back here with the results. |
Ok, I've generated two file listings and have compared them. This is what the differences in the two drives were:
On E: (source drive #1) and not on H: (destination drive) E:\Game Installs (and all folders beneath it) On H: and not on E:
H:\J-Media (and all folders below it)
That's it. Now, my Robocopy command line is (line numbers are not in batch file, they are just for readability):
1. @echo off
2. robocopy E:\ H:\ /E /PURGE /TEE /LOG:"run.log" /XF e:\treeinfo.wc /XD e:\Recycler "e:\System Volume Information" "e:\Game Installs" "h:\J-Media" /R:10 /W:30 /ETA /NFL /NDL
3. Echo Check Robocopy ourput for errors then press any key to continue with video backup
4. pause
5. robocopy J:\Media H:\J-Media /E /PURGE /TEE /LOG:"run.log" /R:10 /W:30 /ETA /NFL /NDL
Basically what this does is to copy the entire E: drive (except for e:\treeinfo.wc, e:\Recycler, e:\System Volume Information and e:\Game Installs) to H: drive. It then copies the J:\Media folder to H: drive. Now, I've excluded both E:\Game Installs (so it doesn't copy any files in this folder to H and H:\J-Media (so it doesn't delete this folder when it comes to the /PURGE switch) in the Robocopy command line for the E: drive copy. Could Robocopy be calling the H:\J-Media folder as an "Extra" even though I have excluded it? Based on the file listings, that's the only thing I can think of. I really was expecting to find an empty folder on H: that was hidden or system (so Robocopy couldn't delete it and was therefore reporting it as Extra every time I ran it) - but there is just seemingly only those two differences. I'm stumped. |
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