I am using Robocopy to transfer around 1 tb worth of files from an external drive to a virtual Windows Server 2008 machine hosted on an ESXi 5.1 VMWare server using USB pass-through.
I used the following (generic) command to transfer the files: Robocopy [external drive path] [Folder path] /mir. This is the output:
Dirs : Total: 1206766 Copied: 990552 Skipped: 216214
Files : Total: 11784918 Copied: 9827653 Skipped: 1957256
Bytes : Total: 1008.081 g Copied: 856.294 g Skipped: 151.786 g
Times : 69:08:41 56:53:42
Speed : 4488960 Bytes/sec.
Speed : 256.860 Megabytes/min.
As you can see, some files were skipped. I think it was because during the process, Robocopy stopped copying 3 times, so i just pressed Enter and the copy continued.
Now, what I want to do is copy the 151.786 gb worth of missing files to a separate location than the original copied files path, because the files that did successfully copy over can not be tampered with right now because they are already being processed into a database. They will be on the same drive of the current copied files, just on a different directory.
Is this possible to accomplish? I think you can't because Robocopy needs the copied batch of files to be able to compare them to the source drive and see which files are missing correct? I know there would probably be a script to accomplish this, but I am a total noob to writing scripts.
