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Robocopy - 5/21/2007 12:46:27 AM

ginolard

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I was looking at the default switches for RoboCopy today and something struck me as highly amusing.

:: Retry Options :
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/R:n :: number of Retries on failed copies: default 1 million.
/W:n :: Wait time between retries: default is 30 seconds.

Sooooo...that means that if it fails to copy a file it will retry twice a minute, 500,000 times.

500,000 minutes = 8333 hours = 347 days.

Fantastic! One year later it might succeed in copying the file.

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RE: Robocopy - 5/21/2007 6:25:53 AM

dm_4ever

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What a coincidence...I was using RoboCopy over the weekend and noticed the same thing however I didn't calculate what that would equate to.

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