Robocopy в Windows

Привет, Хабр! Расскажу про Robocopy – утилиту Windows для апдейтнуого копирования. Она живёт в системе с Windows Vista (раньше была частью NT4 Resource Kit) и предназначена для работы с большим количеством файлов. Robocopy используется для копирования файлов. Часто её используют для миграции файловых серверов или резервного копирования. По сути это более навороченная замена привычным COPY / XCOPY : она поддерживает возобновление копирования, зеркалирование каталогов, многопоточность и многое другое.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/otus/articles/948836/

#windows #Robocopy #Windows_утилита #копирование_файлов #резервное_копирование #миграция_файловых_серверов #зеркалирование_каталогов

Someone recently tooted about robocopy on Windows, and I can't find it in my feed. (Probably because I have no idea how to use Elasticsearch and even though it says it's working... ????)

Anyway, I wanted to also mention "rclone" - it says it's "rsync for cloud" but it works over SMB and SSH and, with a little twiddling, works great for copying large chunks of data multi-threadedly back and forth to/from your NAS and local thingie, whatever it may be. It's multi-platform, cross-platform compatible, and doesn't NEED to be configured for SMB or SSH, you can simply say "copy from source to dest" and it will Do Its Thing. It has, as the name implies, a "sync" option as well, like rsync, where it will copy new files, leave old files alone, and delete no-longer existing files.

It will also do this for a few dozen different cloud provider storage types, like S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.

https://rclone.org

Robocopy is nice, but rclone is also nice!

#robocopy #rclone

My tiny #backup strategy (soon in more details on my digital garden: https://marcoxbresciani.codeberg.page/).

1. Main Documents folder on PC SSD, with almost 280GB (around 100k files) to somehow keep.
Of these, few less than 110GB are those mandatory to be kept (photos, emails, docs, books, ...).

2. First full backup level on an external USB disk encrypted with #VeraCrypt.
Files are synced from (1) with #RoboCopy each 42 😇 modifications.
Disk always connected to PC, not automatically mounted.

I've gotten a little tired of holding my coworkers' hands when they try to use Robocopy, so I wrote a blog post about it

https://jacen.moe/blog/20250323-it-pro-tip-robocopy/

#TechSupport #Windows #Robocopy