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CopyFolder problem - 5/5/2008 2:26:59 PM

mwebb

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We have some department workstations in our Win 2003 domain that are used by multiple users and have important data stored on them. This data needs to be accessed by many different people. Because of the data's importance it makes sense to back it up on a server. Group policy redirection will not work because there are too many users to manage redirection and because the folders that need to be backed up are not the folders redirection will work with.

So I wrote a script, a sample below, that copies a folder from a workstation to a share on a server. The script works but erraticaly. Sometimes it runs fine other times (most of the time) I get a "access denied" because of permissions. I think the permissions are OK because I can reach the server share with the \\server\folder in "run" and I can also map a network drive to the folder.

I have tried the script using both the \\server\share form for the destination folder and the mapped form "F:\" I get the same erratic results wth both methods.

What can I do to get this script to perform reliably?

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'folder moving script
'This script copies folders from a local workstation to a server shared folder.
'If run more than once it will overwrite files that change

'On Error Resume Next

Dim objFilesys

SourceFolder = "c:\WordDocs"
DestFolder = "\\nvfs01\OB_WordDocs"

Set objFilesys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

If objFilesys.FolderExists(SourceFolder) Then
objFilesys.CopyFolder SourceFolder, DestFolder, True
End If

WScript.Echo "Done!!"
WScript.Quit

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RE: CopyFolder problem - 5/6/2008 12:28:39 AM

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If you get an access denied error then it is because the system is denying access to the script. That is what you need to track down. Changing the script will not address the issue.

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RE: CopyFolder problem - 5/6/2008 12:56:11 AM

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I don't think I understand your point.

The script is running on the source machine. It starts successfully. The access denied error occurs when the script attempts to make a connection to the remote server that has the destination folder. This connection can be made when mapping a drive or using \\server\folder.

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RE: CopyFolder problem - 5/6/2008 1:01:35 AM

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Have you tried setting the destination to

\\nvfs01\OB_WordDocs\

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RE: CopyFolder problem - 5/6/2008 1:04:58 AM

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Well, the code as written works fine.

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RE: CopyFolder problem - 5/6/2008 2:20:40 AM

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Yes, I have tried this form and thru a mapped drive.

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RE: CopyFolder problem - 5/6/2008 2:24:18 AM

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We have a very fast network 1Gb. Sometimes this causes issues especially during logon of XP machines.

Some questions:

Is there a way to extend the time for the connection before the error is produced?
Might it help to ping the dest computer before the connection is attempted?
Would it help if I tried another attempt by having an error try the connection again?

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RE: CopyFolder problem - 5/6/2008 4:42:50 AM

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Wait, is this running as a login/startup/logoff/shutdown script?

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