Hi All,
I own the cute little Linkstation Mini, which sits silently doing its job. However, I have been trying to setup some Robocopy jobs and I have been having problems.
I have several PCs in my home and I want to setup a Robocopy job on each one, to mirror a specific folder from each, onto the Linkstation mini. I run each job once, to copy all the files over (using /MIR to mirror). However, when I re-run the jobs Robocopy starts copying all of the files, even though they have not changed!? I can't see anything wrong with the file times on the Linkstation Mini, but I have used Robocopy for years, and never had this problem.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Also, I see that there is a new version of the firmware (1.05). I am running 1.04. However, I cannot find a change log or release notes for the new firmware (even in the download). Is there one anywhere, and does it have anything relevant to this issue in it (fingers crossed) ?
Regard,
Ben
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the response. I did not think of Googling for Robocopy and XFS. I have just done so, and seen that other people have had similar problems. Looks like you cannot use Robocopy with /MIR. I will try and create a custom command line using the many switches RoboCopy has. If I get something up and running I will post it back here for others.
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Ben Taylor
OK. You CAN use Robocopy with the Linkstation Mini. However, you have to use the /FFT switch on the Robocopy command line along with your other switches like /MIR.
The reason for this, is that the Mini's disk is XFS formatted and the XFS date resolution is 1 nanosecond, while NTFS (which is what I am using) is 100 nanosecond resolution. This means the filetimes will not match. Fortunately, you can tell Robocopy to use a less granular filetime comparison by specifying /FFT. /FFT translates to "assume FAT file times. And FAT file times means a granularity of 2 seconds.
Works for me!