Suggested robocopy flags

IN THIS ARTICLE 

Flags used with the robocopy command to migrate / transfer data and maintain permissions

REQUIREMENTS   

• Windows system with the array share mounted

DETAILS

The following flags have seen good success when using the robocopy command to maintain permissions

robocopy s:\ d:\ /XX /MIR /SEC /R:0 /MT:32 /V /NFL /NJH /TEE /LOG:[logfile]

Where
/XX  don't replicate temporary files created by robocopy
/MIR use mirroring option
/SEC copy all security settings from the source files and directories to destination
/R:0 do not retry any failures
/MT:32 use multithreaded copy with 32 threads
/V verbose output of info
/NFL /NJH only output errors and failures
/TEE echo log output to console
/LOG:[logfile] log progress to logfile

RESOLUTION   

You should now be able to provide suggested robocopy flags for transferring data 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES   

Robocopy article from Microsoft

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