Robocopy log (find failures)

[Guest Jordan]

Just did a massive copy from one drive to another with RoboCopy. 250 GB

total. I copied and logged and at the end of the 40 MB log file I see that

I had 3 files fail out of the 750,000+ files.

 

Every file is listed in the log where it seems all of them show "new file".

I tried to do a seach on the file for "Fail" but I only find fail if it is

in the file name or the summary at the end. What are some things I can

search for to find what file has failed.

 

Normally I would just stick this in Excel and sort, but I can't put in 3/4

of a million rows into Excel.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Robocopy log (find failures)

 

 

"Jordan" <me@here.com> wrote in message

news:O3Y49kL8IHA.2336@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> Just did a massive copy from one drive to another with RoboCopy. 250 GB

> total. I copied and logged and at the end of the 40 MB log file I see

> that I had 3 files fail out of the 750,000+ files.

>

> Every file is listed in the log where it seems all of them show "new

> file". I tried to do a seach on the file for "Fail" but I only find fail

> if it is in the file name or the summary at the end. What are some things

> I can search for to find what file has failed.

>

> Normally I would just stick this in Excel and sort, but I can't put in 3/4

> of a million rows into Excel.

 

You can easily sort a log file at the Command Prompt, using sort.exe

 

To find out what warning message you get, you could force an error,

then watch what happens. I did it just now by attempting to copy some

locked Outlook files. Here is the result:

==============

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

ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows :: Version XP010

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

Started : Mon Jul 28 16:49:06 2008

Source = d:\outlook\, Dest = d:\

Files : c*.*

 

Options : /COPY:DAT /R:1000000 /W:30

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

2 d:\outlook\

100% New File 1391 Current Archive.log

0.0% New File 9.4 m Current Archive.pst

2008/07/28 16:49:06 ERROR 33 (0x00000021) Copying File

d:\outlook\Current Archiv e.pst

The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a

portion of the file.

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Open your log file with MS Word, then look for the word "cannot" (for

example).