Guest Tmuldoon Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 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] Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 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.
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