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robocopy
robocopy source destination [file] [options]Windows' advanced file-copy utility, built for reliably copying or mirroring large directory trees (with resume, retry, and logging built in) — a big step up from plain copy or xcopy.
// FLAGS
/MIRmirror source to destination, deleting extras in the destination/Ecopy subdirectories, including empty ones/Zrestartable mode — resumes interrupted copies/R:nnumber of retries on a failed copy/LOGwrite output to a log file// EXAMPLE
robocopy C:\Data D:\Backup /MIR /LOG:backup.log — makes D:\Backup an exact mirror of C:\Data and logs the operation.
// GOTCHA
/MIR deletes files in the destination that no longer exist in the source — pointed at the wrong folder, it can wipe out data that was never meant to be removed.
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