Windows is a bundle of both CLI and GUI tools. We use the GUI ones more because they serve a broader use case and are convenient to use. For file copying and moving, I hadn't ventured much outside the ...

I have about 600GB of data to copy from one server to another. Normally, I'd use ROBOCOPY for this so I can skip copying files which are identical between both systems. In this case, however, I need ...

Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration ...

I regret not knowing these sooner.

The GUI is fine if you're only moving a few files, but for larger and more complex migrations, this built-in Windows utility is the way to go. There are many ways to get a file from Point A to Point B ...

This includes being in that path in a command prompt or any remote mounts. You could also add a "/V /FP" to your robocopy command to see if it's even touching it and hopefully, if it is, see why it's ...