Yowzers! After seeing your post I
looked around for a listing of command-line options. While there are
other posts asking for the same thing with no response, the best I could find
was apparently the developer’s blog. There, he writes “8. Modify the Run textbox to include the –R command line option.
–R all by itself will run all folder pairs that are active for run all.
If you want to run just a single folder pair, add –R“My Pair”
to the end of the command line. Note: there is a space before the hyphen but
not one after the R. If the folder pair name contains a space, surround it with
quotation marks, as the example above shows. For another example, assume that
SyncToy is in the folder named C:\My Folder and that you want to run a folder
pair named "My folder pair." Enter the command line as follows,
including the quotation marks: "C:\My Folder\SyncToy.exe" -R"My
folder pair." Note that there are two sets of quotation marks in this
case: one is around the path to the SyncToy program file and the other
surrounds the folder pair name.”
Perhaps that is the only option.
Regardless, thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Note, however, that robocopy has a mirror
option that should suffice most uses of synctoy, perhaps more easily for
scripting use. It may be better to setup SyncToy for end-users and stick
with RoboCopy for admin scripting.
These are both very handy tools for we
geeks, indeed.
Cheers,
Brian Hoort
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According to this, you should be able to
set it up as a scheduled task.
http://www.pchell.com/support/synctoy.shtml
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I’m a big fan of SyncToy, but being
GUI, it’s not schedule-able (new word). I believe this means it
fails his requirements. I wish it weren’t so – it’s a
great tool.
Brian Hoort
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I have used Microsoft's synctoy with
pretty good results. It has a GUI interface, so a little easier to set up
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx
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We have an XP Pro machine that
houses our Admissions Database for the
Nothing fancy, but it works really well. As long as the machine is
powered on, it runs.
-dak
On 5/10/07 2:06 PM, "Skutt, Tim" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
You
assign the user credentials on which to run the tasks as on XP. As long
as it is running on a service account that has a password that doesn't expire
that should work pretty well.
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How about a Scheduled Task running a batch file
running XCOPY or ROBOCOPY? Better yet, you may be able to use a syncing
program that only copies over the changes (ala RSYNC). On my
Brian
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