Today I was playing with robocopy to move some terabytes on our LAN, and found this in the robocopy /? help:
:: :: Retry Options : :: /R:n :: number of Retries on failed copies: default 1 million. /W:n :: Wait time between retries: default is 30 seconds. /REG :: Save /R:n and /W:n in the Registry as default settings. /TBD :: wait for sharenames To Be Defined (retry error 67).
1 million retries after waiting 30 seconds between retries means that if one file (each copied file) is unavailable, you wait up to:
- 30 million seconds, eg:
- 500k minutes, eg:
- 8333 hours, eg:
- nearly 347 days, eg:
- 1 year
- really?
for reference: https://www.computerhope.com/robocopy.htm
Marco