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Eduard Florinescu
Asked: 2014-06-27 21:43:10 +0800 CST

How to audit a mirroring job?

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I am using SyncBack to mirror two shared folders on two separate shared folders(SMB) on two servers in the same trust domain.

I checked the option to copy also the folder rights:

 Copy sub-directory and file security permissions (only valid for NTFS)

The SyncBack job reported successful when finished. But I had history where some rights were not copied or some files were missing.

How can I audit if the copy/mirroring was successful, check all the files and the security permissions against its original copy?

windows-server-2003

1 Answers

  1. I found a way using robocopy which comes with Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools

    It has an option that only logs the differences without copying them.

    The command was:

    ROBOCOPY C:\Data2\ \\srvbk1\d$\DATA\DATA\ /e /l  /log:diff.txt

    Explanation of the command switches used above:

    • /e Recurse through sub-directories (including empty ones)

    • /l Don’t modify or copy files, log differences only

    • /log:reconcile.txt Write log to reconcile.txt (Recreate if exists)

    • /log+: reconcile.txt (Optional variant) Write log to reconcile.txt (Append if exists)

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