Copy files on Windows Command Line with Progress

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I need to copy files using Windows command-line  available on XP Pro or later by default  and show progress during the process   The progress indicator could be in a terminal or a GUI window  It is intended to be used during batch file scripting

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robocopy      Robocopy  or  Robust File Copy   is a command-line directory and or file replication command  Robocopy functionally replaces Xcopy  with more options  It has been available as part of the Windows Resource Kit starting with Windows NT 4 0  and was first introduced as a standard feature in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008  The command is robocopy

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This technet link has some good info for copying large files  I used an exchange server utility mentioned in the article which shows progress and uses non buffered copy functions internally for faster transfer   In another scenario  I used robocopy  Robocopy GUI makes it easier to get your command line options right

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Here is the script I use    ECHO off SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION mode con cols 210 lines 50 ECHO Starting 1-way backup of MEDIA M   to BACKUP G      robocopy exe M   G        E  PURGE  SEC  NP  NJH  NJS  XD   RECYCLE BIN   System Volume Information   TEE  R 5  COPYALL  LOG from M to G log ECHO Finished with backup  pause

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The Esentutl   y option allows copyng  single  file files with progress bar like this      the command should look like    esentutl  y  FILE EXT   d  DEST EXT   o   The command is available on every windows machine but the y option is presented in windows vista  As it works only with single files does not look very useful for a small ones  Other limitation is that the command cannot overwrite files  Here s a wrapper script that checks the destination and if needed could delete it  help can be seen by passing  h

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I used the copy command with the  z switch for copying over network drives  Also works for copying between local drives  Tested on XP Home edition

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Some interesting timings regarding all these methods   If you have Gigabit connections   you should not use the  z flag or it will kill your connection speed   Robocopy or dism are the only tools that go full speed and show a progress bar   wdscase is for multicasting off a WDS server and might be faster if you are imaging 5  computers   To get the 1 17 timing  I was maxing out the Gigabit connection at 920Mbps so you won t get that on two connections at once   Also take note that exporting the small wim index out of the larger wim file too longer than just copying the whole thing   Model  Exe       OS       switches     index    size    time   link speed  8760w  dism      Win8      export-wim  index 1  6 27GB  2 21   link 1Gbps 8760w  dism      Win8      export-wim  index 2  7 92GB  1 29   link 1Gbps 6305   wdsmcast  winpe32   trans-file  res RWM  7 92GB  6 54   link 1Gbps 6305   dism      Winpe32   export-wim  index 1  6 27GB  2 20   link 1Gbps 6305   dism      Winpe32   export-wim  index 2  7 92GB  1 34   link 1Gbps 6305   copy      Winpe32   z           Whole    7 92GB  25 48  link 1Gbps 6305   copy      Winpe32  none         Wim      7 92GB  1 17   link 1Gbps 6305   xcopy     Winpe32   z  j        Wim      7 92GB  23 54  link 1Gbps 6305   xcopy     Winpe32   j           Wim      7 92GB  1 38   link 1Gbps 6305   VBS copy  Winpe32               Wim      7 92    1 21   link 1Gbps 6305   robocopy  Winpe32               Wim      7 92    1 17   link 1Gbps   If you don t have robocopy exe available  why not run it from the network share you are copying your files from   In my case  I prefer to do that so I don t have to rebuild my WinPE boot wim file every time I want to make a change and then update dozens of flash drives

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You could easily write a program to do that  I ve got several that I ve written  that display bytes copied as the file is being copied  If you re interested  comment and I ll post a link to one

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If you want to copy files and see a  quot progress quot  I suggest the script below in Batch that I used from another script as a base I used a progress bar and a percentage while the script copies the game files Nuclear throne   echo off title NTU Installer setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion   echo Iniciando instalacao    if not exist  quot C  NTU quot        md  quot C  NTU   if not exist  quot C  NTU Profile quot        md  quot C  NTU Profile quot    ping -n 5 localhost  gt nul  for   f in       do set a vb  1 set  quot barra  quot    loop da barra for  l   i in  1 1 70  do set  quot barra  barra    quot  rem barra vaiza para ser preenchida set  quot resto  quot  rem loop da barra vazia for  l   i in  1 1 110  do set  quot resto  resto  quot  set i 0 rem carregameno de arquivos for   f in       do        gt  gt  quot log ntu css quot            copy  quot   f quot   quot C  NTU quot  gt nul         echo Copiado   f           cls     set  a i  1 percent i 100 vb barlen 70 percent 100     for   a in   barlen   do echo   percent                                     barra  0   a  resto       echo Instalado    f    Complete   percent    100       ping localhost -n 1 9   gt nul   xcopy  e  quot Profile quot   quot C  NTU Profile quot  gt  quot log profile css quot                  echo Criando atalho na area de trabalho    copy  quot NTU lnk quot   quot C  Users  username  Desktop quot  gt nul ping localhost -n 4   gt nul   echo Arquivos instalados  pause

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