any way to copy files older than 2 days

Question

Hi all,

I need to copy users' profiles to another location.

I used robocopy. robocopy \server1\userdata \server2\userdata /s /e /mt /zb /XO /r:1 /w:1 /copy:DATSO and checked logs and it still shows me all directories copied and not files copied. Guess that's supposed to be? any better way to copy only two days changes data?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Start by running "robocopy /?" and review the help output.

If you want to copy based on file age, you have to tell robocopy how long. I don't think that you will need the /XO switch.

/MAXAGE:n :: MAXimum file AGE - exclude files older than n days/date.
/MINAGE:n :: MINimum file AGE - exclude files newer than n days/date.	

Use the /l switch to test robocopy. It will just list what it will do without actually copying any files.

This command will copy files that have NOT changed in the past 2 days.

robocopy c:\temp\foo1 c:\temp\foo2  /e /mt /zb /r:1 /w:1 /copy:DATSO /minage:2 /l 

This command will only copy files that have been changed in the past 2 days.

robocopy c:\temp\foo1 c:\temp\foo2  /e /mt /zb /r:1 /w:1 /copy:DATSO /maxage:2 /l

Note that robocopy will not report on the file names if they already exist in the destination folder. You can add the /v switch to have it report on all files.