The Microsoft file copy utility RoboCopy (Robust File Copy) has been around since the late 1990’s and was included in the Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit and is also included in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit as a command line application.
RoboCopy has been a staple of many IT professionals and has always been quite popular. There have been a few GUI shells written for it over the years as well but I found most of them lacking. There has even been some RoboCopy ‘Replacements’ such as XXcopy that were good but not quite the same. I myself have written HTA and Vbs shells for RoboCopy as well as an SMS installer shell called Visual RoboCopy in the past but soon abandoned them and went back to the command line version.
I have been using RoboCopy for as long as I can remember. In fact out of curiosity I just looked through a CD-ROM backup of Cmd and Bat files that I have written and found a RoboCopy batch file I wrote and it has a file date stamp of 3-6-2000. Just for grins here are the contents of that batch file:
Robocopy D:\ "C:\Save" /e /r:2 /w:10
The Microsoft RoboCopy GUI developed by Microsoft has recently been released that will take the guess work out of figuring out the RoboCopy syntax in a nice and clean graphical user interface (GUI). This GUI version will also allow you to generate scripts with all of the proper syntax in place that you have chosen and can save for later use. It also has a log that you can examine as well which is very useful. Download it and test it for yourself and let me know what you think.
Microsoft Robocopy GUI 3.1.1
Tim Beacham's EZ-Execute is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) tool that allows you to use the SysInternals
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