Many Robocopy and cmd processes

[Guest Tmuldoon]

Hello,

 

We are using Robocopy on on Windows 2003 servers. We have 8 Robocopy

processes - yet 10 show up in task manager.

 

We also find out Robocopy fails occasionally - so we restart it - but

then see multiple robocopy and cmd.exe in the the task manager as

well.

 

Instead of 8 processes - we found about 50 at one point, an nothing

was being copies.

 

So now every day, I check the server. And kill processes and

restart. But this is not efficient.

 

Anyone else experience this?

 

Suggestions?

 

Thanks,

 

Tmuld.

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: Many Robocopy and cmd processes

 

Tmuldoon <tmuldoon@spliced.com> wrote:

> Hello,

>

> We are using Robocopy on on Windows 2003 servers. We have 8 Robocopy

> processes - yet 10 show up in task manager.

>

> We also find out Robocopy fails occasionally - so we restart it - but

> then see multiple robocopy and cmd.exe in the the task manager as

> well.

>

> Instead of 8 processes - we found about 50 at one point, an nothing

> was being copies.

>

> So now every day, I check the server. And kill processes and

> restart. But this is not efficient.

>

> Anyone else experience this?

>

> Suggestions?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Tmuld.

 

Are these scheduled tasks? Do you have each task configured to kill a job

that has run for more than X hours? You probably should.

 

It would appear that something in your scripts/commands for the jobs is

failing to complete in a timely fashion - could be a syntax problem, error,

whatnot. It'd be helpful for troubleshooting if you set robocopy to write to

a log so you can review what it's doing/done/failing on.