Re: Robocopy Vs DFS

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From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:12:19 -0600

"Sam Jaffer" <SamJaffer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1F3B7F7C-8FC4-44F5-B939-79F5B2969D54@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> Does Robocopy bring the permissions and shares too? I dont think so and
> thats why FSMT might be a better tool because it brings the permissions
and
> shares along with it.
>

I don't use RoboCopy much and prefer to juse
use XCOPY which does bring those items as
I described in my previous email.

Biggest problem with XCopy is getting a (useful)
log of errors (for fixing them) but I also showed
how to do that in the previous post. 

-- 
Herb Martin
> Hope that helps.
>
> Sam

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