avoid existing file details of destination folder in Robocopy log

Question

I would like to avoid all existing file names and details of destination folder while using Robocopy Log.

Just want to show only copied file list and its details.

So i could save on the robocopy log file size by avoiding existing file details on log.

Is there any option to avoid it, please help out on this

I could not see any option for that

Logging Options : ::

             /L :: List only - don't copy, timestamp or delete any files.
             /X :: report all eXtra files, not just those selected.
             /V :: produce Verbose output, showing skipped files.
            /TS :: include source file Time Stamps in the output.
            /FP :: include Full Pathname of files in the output.
         /BYTES :: Print sizes as bytes.

            /NS :: No Size - don't log file sizes.
            /NC :: No Class - don't log file classes.
           /NFL :: No File List - don't log file names.
           /NDL :: No Directory List - don't log directory names.

            /NP :: No Progress - don't display percentage copied.
           /ETA :: show Estimated Time of Arrival of copied files.

      /LOG:file :: output status to LOG file (overwrite existing log).
     /LOG+:file :: output status to LOG file (append to existing log).

   /UNILOG:file :: output status to LOG file as UNICODE (overwrite existing log).
  /UNILOG+:file :: output status to LOG file as UNICODE (append to existing log).

           /TEE :: output to console window, as well as the log file.

           /NJH :: No Job Header.
           /NJS :: No Job Summary.

       /UNICODE :: output status as UNICODE.

Answer 1

By default robocopy logs only folders and nonpresent/modified (i.e. copied) files.

          New Dir          2    C:\Temp\a\
100%        New File                   0        bar.txt
100%        New File                   0        foo.txt

You can suppress the logging of folders with the /ndl switch (in this case the copied files will be listed with their full path).

100%        New File                   0        C:\Temp\a\bar.txt
100%        New File                   0        C:\Temp\a\foo.txt

Modify just foo.txt and re-run robocopy a b /ndl and you get

100%        Newer                      3        C:\Temp\a\foo.txt

Add /njh and /njs to remove header and summary from the output. Add /np to remove progress indication (the percent value at the beginning of the output line). Add /xx to remove indication of extra files (files that exist only in the destination, but not in the source folder):

C:\Temp>robocopy a b /njh /njs /ndl /np

          *EXTRA File                  0        C:\Temp\b\baz.txt
            New File                   0        C:\Temp\a\bar.txt
            New File                   0        C:\Temp\a\foo.txt

C:\Temp>echo "foo" >a\bar.txt

C:\Temp>robocopy a b /njh /njs /ndl /np /l

          *EXTRA File                  0        C:\Temp\b\baz.txt
            Newer                      3        C:\Temp\a\bar.txt

C:\Temp>robocopy a b /njh /njs /ndl /np /xx /l

            Newer                      8        C:\Temp\a\bar.txt

Answer 2

You should use /NFL /NDL. They will remove all directory and file listings that are not part of robocopy actions.

Official reference

Readable reference

Answer 3

It looks like you can't based on this TechNet posting because even the /v output would still show skipped files.

Only option I can figure would be run a script on the log removing the skipped lines.

Answer 4

Finally I could not find any switches, chose to script in such a way to remove the existing file details line and set the file back with same file name after each robocopy completes

#To remove all Lines with string "Extra File"
 (Get-Content $LogPath)-replace '(.*Extra File).+' | Set-Content $LogPath 

#To remove all empty lines 
(Get-Content $LogPath) | Where-Object {$_ -match '\S'} | Set-Content $LogPath  

what I did in my log files for existing file details line starts with "Extra File" string, so i remove all those lines. But the line space remains. so I used another commmand to remove all empty lines.

Please contribute, any one got easy method for this

Answer 5

I think this may work: robocopy sourceDir targetDir . /njh /njs /ndl /np | find /v "*Extra File"

So just pipe the output to "find" with the /V for excluding lines which contain the specified text "*Extra File".

Answer 6

I have seen that /XX also avoids removing the EXTRA files in the destination folder and for that reason it does not log the extra file info. Someone earlier above already said that /XX negates the /MIR option.

Answer 7

To try to cut through the noise; use robocopy /xx and it will NOT show the files that are already in the destination folder.