I agree with the recommendation. I use it because of it's fault tolerance. It works easy and fine.

>Some of you may be using XCOPY for backups, synchronizing/mirroring directory trees etc. If so, consider using the free Microsoft utility RoboCopy (Robust Copy) instead. It's available in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools, but can also be installed on Windows XP (maybe other versions of Windows as well):
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>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en
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>It comes built-in to Windows Vista.
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>Things I like about it:
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>- can handle directory paths over 260 total characters
>- gives by default a much more verbose progress report while running e.g. reporting %complete of individual files etc.
>- based on a single test mirroring two 5GB directory trees, seems significantly faster than XCOPY
>- while I haven't looked deeply into them yet, offers some quite advanced options e.g. improved fault tolerance
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>Highly recommended.