Using Robocopy to copy to a NAS
I’ve bought me a Shiny New QNAP TS-410, and am in the process of migrating my “stuff” over.
In Windows, I’ve used Robocopy for some years now, which is really good for moving these types of large amounts of data across. What I’ll usually do is give Robocopy a couple of runs at it, to make sure I’ve got everything - OK in theory, but what it’s been doing when I copy to the NAS is saying that nearly everything is “newer” and recopying, instead of just skipping.
So I found this information, and the switch to use is /FFT, which assumes FAT file times. Obviously there is something different in the way times are handled on the NAS (which is running EXT4), and my existing share (NTFS).
