Help on robocopy

Question

So i'm new in using Robocopy to copy files but as i used it i can't copy all the events and whatnot after its complete because i can't scroll all the way up on where i started the command so is there a way i could know the events or what happened after Robocopy is complete?

Tried using this command

/LOG+:C:\example

but i'm having an Invalid Parameter #11 did i do something wrong or missed something? and what's the difference between /LOG:file and /LOG+:file?

Answer 1

Hi @Emm ,

/L -> Specifies that files are to be listed only (and not copied, deleted, or time stamped).
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy#logging-options

What happens if you don't use the /L ?

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Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

Hi @Emm ,

/LOG:file -> "Writes the status output to the log file (overwrites the existing log file)."
/LOG+:file -> "Writes the status output to the log file (appends the output to the existing log file)."
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy#logging-options

You tried /LOG+:C:\example but this looks like a folder. You need to provide a filename, for instance /LOG+:"C:\example\mylog.log"

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Answer 3

Still confused on how it works my original plan was to use this

/log+:C:\Users****\Downloads\loggy

I'm confused on the filename part

Answer 4

Hi @Emm ,

what is *** ?

If you use /LOG+:"C:\Junk\loggy" robocopy will create a file loggy (without a file extension) if not exist and writes the log information to the loggy file in folder C:\Junk
If the file loggy already exists in C:\Junk the log information will be added to the loggy file.
If a folder C:\Junk\loggy exists, the /LOG+:C:\Junk\loggy will fail because robocopy couldn't add the log information to a folder.

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Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 5

Sorry about that **** was my username

So anyway, I tried this

/LOG+:"C:\Users\Junk\Downloads\logggy\Mylog.log"

It made a text document that has all the logs of the things that I want to copy but I'm confused on why there was nothing on my destination folder C:\Users\Junk\Downloads\NewFFF\

My goal was to copy my files and have a log file so I could double check Here is the command I used

ROBOCOPY "D:\FileHistory\junk\DESKTOP-12345\Data\C\Users\junk\Documents\backupss" "C:\Users\junk2\Downloads\NewFFF" /E /ZB /COPYALL /R:2 /L /X /V /TS /FP /ETA /LOG+:"C:\Users\junk2\Downloads\logggy\Mylog.log" /TEE