Windows 10: Robocopy Error 2 - copyying folder in dropbox

I have successfully created and used the following batch file in windows10


robocopy C:\Users\Julie\Documents\Test C:\Users\Julie\Documents\accounts-backup
pause

However when I run the batch below to copy the contents of a folder in Dropbox I get

ERROR 2 (0x00000002) Accessing Source Directory C:\Users\Julie\Dropbox\accounts\
The system cannot find the file specified.

robocopy C:\Users\Julie\Dropbox\accounts C:\Users\Julie\Documents\accounts-backup
pause

Any suggestions to resolve this

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Robocopy copies folders not in Documents to my backup Documents folder on 2nd drive.

Two things:

• You must surroound your folder names with double quotes:
  
  robocopy "C:\Users\my name\Documents . . ." "D:\Dropbox\my name\Documents
  . . ."
• Robocopy often hides target folders, causing users to think they are missing. Look for hidden folders.

 

Robocopy copies folders not in Documents to my backup Documents folder on 2nd drive.

I currently have 2 PCs with Windows 10 that I backup Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos to a 3rd PC folder that is backed up to the Cloud. On my PC, the Music, Pictures and Videos folders are not under Documents. They are at the same level as Documents
under my user name.

I had been using SyncToy to do the copying, but had to switch to Robocopy because SyncToy does not work right under Windows 10. All works fine. The SyncToy command and then the Robocopy command run on the 3rd PC.

I want to eliminate the 3rd PC and move the backup folder to a 2nd hard drive on my PC. That is where the problem begins. Robocopy will now run on my PC. When Robocopy copies the Document folder to the backup Documents folder, it copies 'My Music', 'My
Pictures' and 'My Videos' to the backup Documents folder. These folders do not exist in the Documents folder. It appears that there is some link that connects 'My Music' to the separate Music folder. The same applies to 'My Pictures' and 'My Videos'.

This is the Robocopy command that I want to use to copy the Documents data to the backup Documents folder:

robocopy C:\Users\my name\Documents C:\Users\my name\Dropbox\PC1\Documents /mir >> c:\robocopybackup_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%.log

I tried adding the /XL Robocopy option to block the copy of these unwanted folders to my backup:

robocopy C:\Users\my name\Documents D:\Dropbox\my name\Documents /XD "C:\Users\my name\Documents\My Music","C:\Users\my name\Documents\My Pictures","C:\Users\my name\Documents\My Videos" /mir >> c:\robocopybackup_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%.log

This did not help. Please tell me what to do.....

Thank you!

 

Copy NTFS permissions to a NAS with Robocopy

Hello,

I'm actually using Robocopy to copy a "home" folder with NTFS permissions to a NAS Synology. All theses equipment are on the domain, that will be named XXXXX in this post.

The permissions on the "home" folder are explicit, and not inherited from the parent folder. Also note that the SYNOLOGY NAS have the Windows Permissions activated.

The goal is to create a backup of this "home" folder to the NAS with the permissions.

Here is the Robocopy script that i'm using :

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set rep_log=C:\Script\log

set rep_sync_DATA=\\SRV1\e$\home\

set rep_sync_NAS=\\NAS-SYNOLOGY01\test01\backup\home\

robocopy %rep_sync_DATA% %rep_sync_NAS% /MIR /SEC /ZB /NP /XF thumbs.db /R:2 /W:5 /log:%rep_log%\Synchronisation_backup_nas.txt

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The Robocopy script works well, and the files are well copied. EXCEPT one. On my "home" source folder, we can find on the permission list the XXXXXX\Administrators group. (explicit permission)

But, unfortunately, once the folder is copied to the NAS, it change the XXXXX\Administrators group to NAS-SYSNOLOG01\Administrators. This folder take the local domain of the NAS instead of my AD domain.

Please note that this "domain change" is only applied to this group, and the others lambda groups are not impacted by this strange change. (example XXXXXX\Sales group on source folder will be copied as XXXXXX\Sales to the destination)

The same script works perfectly if the destination is a USB HDD for example. It only happens if I want to copy to the NAS.

Any idea to fix this issue ? I faced this issue twice, with SYNOLOGY and with NETAPP technology. Whatever soft I tried to copy (robocopy or others), the result is the same...

Thanks for your potential help

Sébastien