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Scheduled run won't inherit admin privileges

James Knox — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 19:45:34 -0000

I love RoboMirror, but have one small (but difficult) problem. A couple of the backups I want it to make require a ShadowCopy. This works fine if I launch the program (and click on YES - I want it to be able to make changes to my computer."). But for the life of me, I cannot get it set up so as to automatically have permission.

If it launches itself late at night (as scheduled), the next morning there is a screen message that it failed because it did not have admin privileges. I swear that I have set every properties and privilege that I can find - to both the .exe file and to the shortcut file. And I am logged in with an admin account. Still no change. [Scheduled backups that do not require shadowcopy work just fine.]

Ideas?

#18 Backup without summary

iumkit — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 19:59:05 -0000

With its new fork this is possible (wait 10 seconds) "Robust Backup" :

This is a first fork version, later there will probably be other new features.

Automatically wake the HDD before backup, and put it into sleep state agai

windranger — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 07:12:47 -0000

I use the tool to do a backup once a week on an internal back-up sata HDD; I'm using Robomirror with the Windows Scheduler, so that it is started automatically every week on thet same day, at same time.

Now I would like to keep the HDD in the sleep state, to save wear and tear and save power.
(I can sleep the drive manually, by using for example Revosleep)

But I was wondering if there is a way to wake the drive up before the backup process is started, and then put it back into the sleep state after it finishes the backup process, all automatically.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Suggestions

Andrew Cotey — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 02:26:25 -0000

I already love the program but I have a few development suggestions: 1. Checkboxes for all the additional switches, 2. Check on program start if robocopy version it is using is the most recent and update it as necessary, 3. Most importantly, optional lock-on of the storage device IDs for Source and Target so that next time the mirror pairs are used there is no questionable the drives are the same or correct. I suppose this applies mainly where portable drives are being used like in my case.

#18 Backup without summary

Kelvin Flook — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:03:33 -0000

I think you will find that if you schedule the task it runs without running Simulate First. So schedule it to begin 2-5 mins from now and it will just run without summary or prompt to proceed.

Backup without summary

Peter Meinert — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 14:18:21 -0000

Hello!
I'm looking for a way to start a backup WITHOUT a previous summary and WITHOUT the need to confirm anything before the backup starts...

"The mirror operation could not be logged" - error message popup

Andy — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:59:18 -0000

Hello,
I've used Robomirror for many years , but have been routinely receiving following error message for the last several months, the message pops up each time the PC is started.

"The mirror operation could not be logged" ; The file c:\users\andy\appdata\local\robomirror\logxml is locked

the two scheduled mirror operations continue to function normally

robomirror v2 ; windows10

Feature - Show the final robocopy command in RoboMirror gui

Kris Duras — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:52:07 -0000

Hi,
it would be maybe a nice feature, when the RoboMirror gui could show up the full final robocopy command.
That's useful for education and for situations where you can't use the gui on a system. In such a situation the gui is just used as a fast command builder.
Greets Kris

#15 Exception

Vincent Sylvester — Mon, 23 May 2022 11:30:16 -0000

I did get robocopy itself to run manually via:

robocopy "D:\" "E:\" /E /ZB /DCOPY:T /COPYALL /V

Suppose either robocopy changed or the way RoboMirror calls it up isn't equivalent to that for some reason. It would be good to add debug to show the exact command it would pass to robocopy not just the custom flags.

#15 Exception

Vincent Sylvester — Mon, 23 May 2022 10:22:17 -0000

Changed this line:
StartInfo.StandardOutputEncoding = StartInfo.StandardErrorEncoding =
Encoding.GetEncoding(65001);

Universale utf-8 should do for most things, perhaps 850 is a better code page, but it seems the Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.OEMCodePage is not returning anything useful and that's not accounted for. Should probably check for known good encoding and use that else default to utf or unicode.

So now I got the operations queue running. Though it seems not to do anything when syncing entire disks. Stuck on Pending changes are being identified... then just disappears.