That would be my solution as well. Another alternative is rsync, but I'm not sure whether it can preserve file attributes on NTFS file systems. It's the standard solution on UNIX (including Linux and Mac) systems. -----Original Message----- From: Timothy Spaulding <spaulding@icanbrew.com> Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:55 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Xcopy question My favorite utility for something like this where you want the exact same contents on y:\utilities as you have on x:\utilities is robocopy: Robocopy x:\utilityes y:\utilities /mir The /mir switch will mirror the source to the target. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Troy Hergert <thergert@vision-forward.org> Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 2:59 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Xcopy question Hello everyone, I use a bat file with an xcopy command to copy the contents of a folder on one nas drive to another. It does not tseem to copy new sub folders. My command line is as follows with I believe appropriate switches. Is xcopy the best route to go for this kind of procedure. I try to run the command every month or so to get a backup of my main utilities folder. It's around 150 Gb. New files within existing folders copy no problem but new subfolders and their contents do not. they seem to just get ignored. Thanks for any advice. xcopy "x:\utilities\*.*" y:\utilities\" /s /d /c /y Troy ### _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org