Rich copy windows scheduled task

Here are the steps I am doing: 1. Open Task Scheduler, click Create task from the Action window on the right 2. I leave it alone for 30 minutes, and nothing backs up or shows folders being created. What am I missing? Any and all help would very much be appreciated, thank you!

Edited by cmakk Tuesday, August 16, PM. Tuesday, August 16, PM. Here is the usual way to resolve such issues: Put your richcopy command into a batch file. Test the batch file by invoking it manually to ensure that it works. Invoke the batch file through the Task Scheduler, then check the log file. It will tell you what went wrong. Hi cmakk, Please try the batch file provided by Frederik Long. Hope it will be helpful to you Please remember to mark the replies as an answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.

When you set up a custom made task in task scheduler that took you hours to perfect, you obviously want to make a copy of it. You should not risk loosing this task because it will save you loads of time if you have a copy of it ready to go.

For example I have a task set in task scheduler to backup a folder on one drive and make a mirror copy of it on another drive. This process has saved my life, seriously. Task scheduler is completely different in Windows Vista and Windows XP and therefore the instructions below are not interchangeable. Well I daresay this is an obvious answer. Anything you can export or make a copy of, you should. Do not hesitate and um and ahh about it!! When you get a new computer or you reformat the one you have it is much easier to restore it to how you like it if you have backups and files to restore.

It just makes life so much easier. Where ever you save the file, it will appear with a red cross on it because this file will not function until it is placed back into task scheduler. In Windows Vista, as soon as you open task scheduler there will be an option to import a task in the third column. Simply press on this link and browse to where your saved task backup copy is. After you have copied a task and saved it in a safe place, when you want to use it again, simply copy it again and paste it back into task scheduler.

The file will have the same properties and settings attached to it. My name is Milica Pantic but everyone calls me Mitz. The benchmarks indicate that in a local drive to drive copy process, RichCopy is twice as fast as Unstoppable Copier.

In large file copies, Unstoppable Copier is about 2. And, in network copies, RichCopy is about 3 times faster than Unstoppable Copier.

My experience so far is matching up well to the benchmarks, so I can positively confirm that in the right situation RichCopy is an excellent solution. As I said before though, Unstoppable Copier will not be leaving my toolkit because while both tools perform basically the same task, one tool can shine over the other in different situations.

Give both a try and see if you prefer one tool over the other. On the flipside, I was at work and saw some bellsouth guys installing and splicing some fiber. Unlimited data bandwidth possibility! Good Day! Thank You for this informative, helpful article. I found with most other articles, a profound feeling that I wanted to escape or fall asleep.

Your article was a nice read, so much so, I read it a second time to enjoy it twice. Along with the concise, informative manner in which you present the material, you make it easy for readers to understand, especially with your humorous references to monkey wrenches and walmart.

As funny as they are, they are also real-world scenarios that others can comprehend. I also like the way you integrate your professional real-world experiences with the utilities your evaluating, and the honorable way you present both. An excellent and very readable article, many thanks. Richcopy is definitely an almost Number 1, multi threading is a huge plus. It does not copy folders only individual files in a folder, so the destination folder had to be manually created which is a huge pain.

I could not find a way around it. Regards, PL. Hi Peter. You only need to create a root target folder. Richcopy will copy over the source folder hierarchal directory structure and place the files in accordance with the source location co-ordinates. Make sure the advanced option settings are properly configured. Try Teracopy, it was worked well for my folder and file copies. I also used Richcopy but noticed that it would miss some files or skip them. Pingback: Como copiar grandes cantidades de archivos de un disco a otro.

Indeed this would work, but as peter said it lacks the ability to copy whole folders. I tried both. Both applications were significantly slower than Windows copy with Rich copy being the slowest. I tried adjusting the amount of threads to no avail. So the features and configuration of the 2 applications is far better than standard windows copy but at a significant penalty of speed. It might not seem like much but when you are dealing with multiple TB of data copy times can vary dramatically.

As for the original issue of live data and too many files, you could have also used sector level backup software like shadowprotect. It is limited in that it can only backup and restore to whole logical volumes and not file level but is a very handy bit of software.

We have a NAS box with four bonded 1Gbps connections using The server uses two bonded 1Gbps network connections as well. I noticed that Windows Explorer out performed RichCopy or any other utility — until I changed the File Cache setting from the default to — now they act the same.

I am getting roughly Megabytes per second bytes not bits. Michael, that sounds great. Can you please share what your other settings are? Hi, Thanks for this interesting reading. I thought I could almost find what I was looking for… Maybe I did in fact.