topic Re: Robocopy in Network and Storage Protocols

Robocopy

CHADRODRIGUEZ — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:18:40 GMT

I'm trying to run this command: robocopy /mir /sec "\\pr-share\G$\GDrive" \\pr-na-3210-a\Company_Share" and essentially get random "access is denied waiting 30 seconds, ERROR 5 (0x00000005)". I want to mirror the source ( NTFS) to destination (CIFS) so that I can properly cut this over. What command can I run that will secure permissions as well as not give me this error and others.

Re: Robocopy

nitish — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:18:43 GMT

Do you see this error a some particular files or entire directory?

- Are you running this with Administrator privileges ?

- If you see this on particular files, check the ownership on them.

Re: Robocopy

CHADRODRIGUEZ — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:22:47 GMT

- I'm running with Administrative credentials

- some files and folders, and I'm having to take ownership of them in order to proceed. But isn't there any addition to the command I'm using that would just copy them?

Re: Robocopy

AGUMADAVALLI — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:36:32 GMT

use the snapmirror or ndmpcopy that would resolve your problem.

thank you,

AK G

Re: Robocopy

CHADRODRIGUEZ — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:52:01 GMT

so AGUMADAVALLI I'm trying to take an existing nfts shared and mapped drive and move it to my cifs share. How in the world would this work?

Re: Robocopy

ivisinfo — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:23:06 GMT

Don't use /MIR and /SEC together. Use only /MIR.

See here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2008/07/31/robocopy-mir-switch-mirroring-file-permissions.aspx

Re: Robocopy

brifinin5 — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 14:45:40 GMT

Well, you can use long path tool for such issues...