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Robocopy is still the fastest way to copy thousands of files on Windows, and I wasted years not using it

Discover the hidden power of Robocopy, a CLI tool that offers lightning-fast file copying and greater control over your copy ...
Ars Technica

Would robocopy copy a single large file faster than regular copy?

I know robocopy is faster than the normal copy command for transferring many files over a network because of its multithreading. But for transferring a single file such as a multi-GB video, would ...
Ars Technica

RoboCopy files copy to target however I am getting this error ERROR 5 (0x00000005)

I am new user so I hope I am in the right place! I am having a problem with RoboCopy that I am not sure how to troubleshoot. The problem is that I am getting the ...
MCPmag

Using Robocopy To Transfer Files

The GUI is fine if you're only moving a few files, but for larger and more complex migrations, this built-in Windows utility is the way to go. There are many ways to get a file from Point A to Point B ...
Network World

SMB 2.1 and Multithreaded Robocopy

If you have a lot of files, especially small ones, the metadata becomes a higher percentage of the total bits transferred, and the lack of parallelism hurts performance. But with SMB 2.1 and the new ...
Lifehacker

Find files on CDs with Robocopy snapshots

May 3, 2007 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Reader Kevin's got stacks of burned data CDs and DVDs, but doesn't want to have to switch them in and out of his CD ...