Robocopy - How do I show verbose output onscreen?

[zbag]

I am trying to get Robocopy to show all files copied onscreen, regardless of whether they exist or not. In short, I just want to watch the read activity onscreen as it scans over the files. Is there any way to do this?

 

[EBGreen]

Type robocopy /??? at the command line and you will find:

/V : produce Verbose output, showing skipped files.

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]

 

[zbag]

Thanks, only /v doesn't seem to work on files that are copied, only ones that are not. I want to see all files copied and not copied scroll up onscreen, regardless of its status. XCOPY and XXOPY do this just file, but where is it in ROBOCOPY?

 

[EBGreen]

Again, from Robocopy /???

/X : report all eXtra files, not just those selected.

try that.

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]

 

[zbag]

Nope, that doesn't seem to do anything. Maybe Robocopy doesn't support what I'm looking for. It's hard to watch the progress as it's happening real-time without this switch.

 

[EBGreen]

I did this test

C:\Temp>robocopy c:\Temp c:\Test

----------------------------------------------------------------------
ROBOCOPY v 1.96 : Robust File Copy for Windows NT
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Started : Tue Jun 14 14:47:53 2005

Source : c:\Temp\
Dest : c:\Test\
Files : *.*
Options : *.* /R:1000000 /W:30

---------------------------------------------------------------------

8 c:\Temp\
100% New File 92600 bass.dll
100% New File 324043 bookmarks.html
100% New File 716846 bookmarksfromhome.html
100% New File 1795 file_id.diz
100% New File 2656 scene.org.txt
100% New File 3066372 sor.dat
100% New File 93696 sor.exe
100% New File 1429176 sor.mp3

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 1 0 1 0 0 0
Files : 8 8 0 0 0 0
Bytes : 5.46 m 5.46 m 0 0 0 0
Times : 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00

Speed : 22027630 bps.
Speed : 1260.431 mb/min.

Ended : Tue Jun 14 14:47:54 2005



C:\Temp>robocopy c:\Temp c:\Test /V /X

----------------------------------------------------------------------
ROBOCOPY v 1.96 : Robust File Copy for Windows NT
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Started : Tue Jun 14 14:48:56 2005

Source : c:\Temp\
Dest : c:\Test\
Files : *.*
Options : *.* /V /X /R:1000000 /W:30

---------------------------------------------------------------------

8 c:\Temp\
same 92600 bass.dll
same 324043 bookmarks.html
same 716846 bookmarksfromhome.html
same 1795 file_id.diz
same 2656 scene.org.txt
same 3066372 sor.dat
same 93696 sor.exe
same 1429176 sor.mp3

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 1 0 1 0 0 0
Files : 8 0 8 0 0 0
Bytes : 5.46 m 0 5.46 m 0 0 0
Times : 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00

Ended : Tue Jun 14 14:48:56 2005


Notice that it showed me the files that were not copied.

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]

 

[zbag]

Hmmm... I probably have a conflicting switch in there. What do you think?

This is what I have for switches:

/copyAT /s /e /b /zb /r:0 /w:0 /nfl /ndl /v /x /eta /r:1 /w:1

 

[EBGreen]

When I use that command line, /copyAT is flagged by Robocopy as an invalid parameter as is /b, /zb, /nfl, /ndl. When I remove those, it works for me. I would also point out that /r:0 /w:0 and /r:1 /w:1 contradict each other.


[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]

 

[zbag]

OK thanks for the R: and W: discrepancies. I was in a hurry when I made this. Actually these switches are the latest in the Robocopy XP version. Maybe there's something there that's conflicting.

 

[Digitalcandy]

Tells you all you need to know about the Robocopy switches.

http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html

 

[sn0rg]

You have specified /nfl and /ndl -

/nfl: DONT LOG FILE NAMES
/ndl: DONT LOG DIRECTORY NAMES

You also specify /z and /zb. /zb supercedes /z, so no need for that.