robocopy question

[DPaul]

Looking for somebody with hands-on experience in robocopy.
I want to do the simplest of things, copy and paste, but the number of switches is confusing.
The setup:
On my Desktop, a path ....\BB-scans\ *.jpg (about 100.000 files)
On the server, a path .....\BB-scans\... already containing 250.000 other jpgs.

so:
robocopy BB-scans <serverpath>\BB-scans /NP
This does the job but ....
Why does it wait about 45 minutes before starting to copy?
Is it checking if there are any doubles ?
How can I avoid the waiting time, and make it start copying right away ?
thanks,
paul

[AdamHensley]

Hey Paul! Robocopy can be a bit tricky with all those switches. It sounds like the delay might be due to it scanning the destination directory. You could try adding the /MT switch for multi-threading to speed things up, or /XO to skip older files if you don't need to check for duplicates. Something like: robocopy BB-scans <serverpath>\BB-scans /NP /MT /XO Give it a shot and see if it reduces the wait time.

[DPaul]

BB-scans /NP /MT /XO

OK, thanks for the advice.
Next monday I 'm doing a very large copy operation.
Will try and let you know!
regards
Paul