Emcopy Download
Mar 02, 2014 emcopy download: Recovers files from damaged media such as scratched disks. Free download provided for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. To create a foundation on which we create and distribute knowledge. To continuously learn new products by providing the tools and information for the community for free.
Emc’s emcopy (part of emc’s rather elusive but freely downloadable if you can find it CIFSTools.zip package) is akin to Microsoft’s own robocopy, only faster with extra benefits. The command syntax is much like robocopy so if you’re familar with that, then using emcopy will be easy. Emcopy lets you copy a file or directory (and included subdirectories) from and to an NTFS partition, keeping security the same on the copy as on the original.
It allows you to back up the file and directory security—ACLs, owner information, and audit information—from a source directory to a destination directory without copying the file data. It defaults to 64 threads but can be told to use up to 256 threads, massively speeding up copy operations.
In practice, emcopy vs robocopy – I have found it to be much faster than robocopy. Download it from here Official documentation here Working examples of emcopy commands below, with differences highlighted.
Emcopy Download Windows 10
It’s worth my mentioning that recently while using emcopy to migrate specific subfolders, ignoring surrounding adjacent folders, I discovered that emcopy has a bug whereby it does not ignore all folders specified by the /xd switches – only the last one. This is a real shame, and I hope it gets fixed. Robocopy on the other hand does ignore all directories specified by multiple /xd directory exclusions. I also recently discovered that if migrating from a Windows NTFS volume to a CIFS filesystem on a Celerra / VNX, that robocopy generally thinks files are newer on the source side, even when they are not. There is a workaround already available in robocopy (even in the older versions of it) by specifying the /fft switch. This brought a 36 hour copy back down to just over an hour in practice.