robocopy.exe

Sometimes I have trouble copying things from my local drive to the network shares. I found out this has to do with virus scanning on the server - it kills one of the files on the fly and thus mucks up my file-copying efforts. In cases like these I use Robocopy to do the job.

Copy a local folder to a network share

robocopy "C:\Users\me\my-big-subfolder" "P:\destination" /e /r:3

• The /e is for all subfolders
• The /r:3 is to only do 3 retries. Otherwise, in the case of a file getting nuked by AV, I may get stuck in a loop where my machine tries again and again and again and again to copy it to the network drive.