This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Robocopy


> Hi Henri,
>
> On Apr  2 19:47, Houder wrote:
>> Hi Corinna,
>>
>> Reference:
>>     https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-04/msg00008.html
>>      - Re: Can I move Cygwin and Cygwin64 to a drive other than C: ?
>
> Would you mind to keep the mail threading intact and reply to the issue
> rather than creating a new thread?  It's a bit puzzeling and not easy
> to follow for people looking for solutions.  Thank you.
>
>> Amazing that you had so much luck with robocopy ...
>>
>> It did not surprise me, that it failed on me ...
>> [...]
>
> Hmm, weird.  I used it successfully to copy complete Cygwin
> installations from one machine to another.

:-) one has to add the /B option to your invocation of robocopy ...

>From robocopy /?
...
::
:: Copy options :
::
...
                 /B :: copy files in Backup mode. <==== SeBackup privilege ?????

Corinna, you are the expert !!!!! Your privilege to explain all this :-)

Henri


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]