Robocopy Log File - Skipped files - Interpreting the Log file

Question

Hey all,
I am migrating our main file server that contains approximately 8TB of data. I am doing it a few large folders at a time.  The folder below is about 1.2TB.  Looking at the log file (which is over 330MB) I can see it skipped a large number of files,
however I haven't found text in the file where it specifies what was skipped, any idea on what I should search for?
I used the following Robocopy command to transfer the data:
robocopy E:\DATA Z:\DATA /MIR /SEC /W:5 /R:3 /LOG:"Z:\Log\data\log.txt"
The final log output is:
                Total    Copied   Skipped  Mismatch    FAILED    Extras
     Dirs :    141093    134629      6464         0         0         0
    Files :   1498053   1310982    160208         0     26863       231
    Bytes :2024.244 g1894.768 g 117.468 g         0  12.007 g  505.38 m
    Times :   0:00:00  18:15:41                       0:01:00 -18:-16:-41
    Speed :            30946657 Bytes/sec.
    Speed :            1770.781 MegaBytes/min.
    Ended : Thu Jul 03 04:05:33 2014
I assume some are files that are in use but others may be permissions issues, does the log file detail why a file is not copied?
TIA
Carl

Answer 1

Hi.
Files that are skipped are files that already exists. Files that are open/permissions etc will be listed under failed. As Noah said use /v too see which files were skipped. From robocopy /?:
:: Logging Options :
/V :: produce Verbose output, showing skipped files.
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