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Startup script takes 5 reboots to complete
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18-09-2020 07:42PM#1Have to copy folder(with sub's) to multiple PC's. total ~300MB. Its program without need to be installed, just copy files.
Have created .bat to run on startup, deployed over GPO and it works.
However, it takes exactly 5 reboots to complete full folder/file copy. It does it in portions:
1. first reboot - root folder(empty)
2. second reboot - subfolders(empty)
3. reboot - some files
4. so on
only after 5 reboots full set of files in place, despite allowing ~30min after each
am i missing something?
bat file single liner:
robocopy /copyall /s /e \\Server\Folder$ "C:\Program Files\Folder"
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Thanks.The /s and /e might be redundant:
/s Copies subdirectories. This option automatically excludes empty directories.
/e Copies subdirectories. This option automatically includes empty directories.
From Microsoft here.
Try it out with just the /e
Now this is even more interesting.
Where it appear that program running after 5 reboots, i am not the end user and cannot confirm that all utilities/features within it are functional. So i conduct further testing.
Original directory DIR /s
Total Files Listed:
1677 File(s) 308,213,097 bytes
293 Dir(s) 2,192,687,104 bytes free
With /e only - it actually take 8 reboots to get complete set of folders/files
After 1st reboot dir /s
Total Files Listed:
0 File(s) 0 bytes
2 Dir(s) 119,388,102,656 bytes free ## despite only root folder shown, no hidden items either
After 2nd reboot dir /s
Total Files Listed:
0 File(s) 0 bytes
38 Dir(s) 119,367,569,408 bytes free
After 3rd reboot dir /s
Total Files Listed:
436 File(s) 249,678,601 bytes
140 Dir(s) 119,054,286,848 bytes free
After 4th reboot dir /s
Total Files Listed:
581 File(s) 257,298,720 bytes
227 Dir(s) 119,101,177,856 bytes free
After 5th reboot dir /s
Total Files Listed:
895 File(s) 282,122,640 bytes
275 Dir(s) 119,042,473,984 bytes free ## program runs, but cant be sure re full functionality
After 6th reboot dir /s
Total Files Listed:
1385 File(s) 305,433,699 bytes
290 Dir(s) 119,086,342,144 bytes free
After 7th reboot dir /s
Total Files Listed:
1646 File(s) 308,192,763 bytes
293 Dir(s) 119,079,321,600 bytes free
After 8th reboot dir /s
Total Files Listed:
1677 File(s) 308,213,097 bytes
293 Dir(s) 119,089,819,648 bytes free
With /s only it takes only 2 reboots.
After 1st reboot dir /s
Total Files Listed:
0 File(s) 0 bytes
290 Dir(s) 119,328,423,936 bytes free
After 2nd reboot dir /s
Total Files Listed:
1677 File(s) 308,213,097 bytes
290 Dir(s) 119,021,010,944 bytes free
Program run, but i cant be certain if those missing 3 directories(empty suppose) will be created by program itself and not fire back during "production" at later stage. Total files size match.
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Thanks.Use the /log+ switch to output the log to a file and see what robocopy is actually doing
Did, got this repeatedly :
2020/09/19 14:46:08 ERROR 1314 (0x00000522) Copying NTFS Security to Destination Directory C:\Program Files\FOLDER\
A required privilege is not held by the client.
GPO run against Computer not user
And it suddenly, bit-by-bit gains privileges!?!?! Makes no sense, either you have or you don't
Will try later to change destination directory, makes no difference where to run program from, will see.
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