Robocopy Copying Directory from Remote Computer: Error 'The Network Path Was Not Found'
I Am Trying to Copy a Folder from a Remote Computer Using Robocopy I'm Using the Following: Net Use \\192.168.10.90\Ipc$ /U: Server\[Username] [Password]...
I am trying to copy a folder from a remote computer using ROBOCOPY
I'm using the following:
NET USE \\192.168.10.90\IPC$ /u:server\[username] [password]
ROBOCOPY \\192.168.10.90\home\lgr\ \\C:\LGR_Back_Up\LGR_A\ /Z
NET USE \\192.168.10.90\IPC$ /D
If I run this line by line, I get 'The command completed successfully'after the first line, followed by 'The network path was not found' after I enter the Robocopy commmand.
I think this is because I am in the wrong location.
When I log into the computer 192.168.10.90, using SSH, I get logged into the user's folder with the username I specified. This folder is contained withing the home directory, so the path is home/user. Where I want to copy files from is home/lgr/.
Is it possible that once I log in from the command line with my first line of script, that I am taken to the user folder, so that my script is looking for the folder home/user/lgr/? If so, how do I navigate up one level?
I hope this makes sense.
4 Answers
\\C:\LGR_Back_Up\LGR_A\ is not a valid network path.
If LGR_Backup is on the local drive, then use C:\LGR_Back_Up\LGR_A\.
If LGR_Backup is a folder in the root of C: on a remote computer, and you're trying to get at it via the C$ admin share, then you'd use \\Remote_Computer\C$\LGR_Back_Up\LGR_A\
In the end this is the script that I got to work:
rem # Script to connect:
NET USE \\192.168.10.90\IPC$
rem # Script to copy:
ROBOCOPY \192.168.10.90\lgrdata\ \ICOS\Analyser_backups\LGR_Flux\ /NP /TEE /E /dcopy:T /Z
rem # Script to disconnect:
NET USE \\192.168.10.90\IPC$ /D
Thanks for all your help. I think this was a complicated, specific problem due to the folder structure of our instrument. I just couldn't figure out where the data was that I wanted to copy, and then I also problems using the following from the original script:
\\C:\LGR_Back_Up\LGR_A\ /Z
As Techie007 said, this is not a valid network path.
OK, you missed some of the net use command
[left out drive letter to attach network storage to]
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