Re: Robocopy working differently on my new NAS

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"BeachGuy" <jhjacobsRE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:etK1Q1uGLHA.1052@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I just installed a 1TB Netgear MS2110 NAS on my home network to replace the USB drive I had been using for nightly backups with a robocopy batch file. The USB backup worked fine, but was running out of space. The robocopy /MIR parameter ensured that only files that changed since the last backup were copied.

Using the new NAS, robocopy seems to think every file, whether changed or not, is "newer", so it now recopies every file.

Is there some additional parameter or something else I need to do so that robocopy will recognize and not recopy unchanged files?

I sure appreciate your help, -John


Have a look at these two switches:
/FFT :: assume FAT File Times (2-second granularity).
/DST :: compensate for one-hour DST time differences.


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