Robocopy not working as expected.

[bobpron1]

Hello!

We are in the process of moving data (not the hardware) from one data
center managed by a partner company to our data center. The data is
about 250GB. There are two T1's between the data centers. Rather than
just do a robocopy of the data initially, we had planned to have the
partner copy/zip/encrypt it to a USB drive and overnight it. We
received the data, decrypted it and copied it to its new home.

Here's the problem... in order to catch changes to new and changed
files as well as undo any changes to files in the new location before
it actually becomes "Production," we set up a robocopy /MIR script with
the source and dest. configured correctly. When the script runs,
robocopy is seeing ALL files as newer at the source and is replicating
all files. The source has the same timestamp and attributes as the
destination... This is strange to me... but some colleagues have
mentioned that they have seen this type of behavior before.

After robocopy recopies the file from the source, the MIR appears to
work normally. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? After all, the
same files are getting replicated initially.

Thanks!!!

 

[Guest]

I had an issue like this, I solved it by copying just the Attrubites,
Timestamp, Owner and auditing info. As it is not copying data it should be
prettey quick.

robocopy <source> <dest> /COPY:ATOU