Parallel Robocopy

Abraham John

Hi All,

Am trying to copy files from a single source to multiple destinations. I dont want this copy to happen sequentially. I want the files to be copied at the same time to all destinations, in parallel. How is it possible to do with robocopy as a command line argument?

Ex - Robocopy soucreDir ---destination1 -destination2 -destiantion3 in a single line command line argument.

Or how can we do this in c#?

Abraham

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Juan Francisco Morales Larios9y ago
Hi,

It's very simple,
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace ConsoleApplication37
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            Parallel.ForEach(args,
                (parameter) =>
                {
                    /// Async Execute.

                    CopyFile(parameter);
                });

            Console.WriteLine("Finish !!!");

            Console.Read();

        }



        public static void CopyFile(string destinator)
        {
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);

            /// Your code
            Console.WriteLine($"Copy data to {destinator}");
        }



    }
}
Nitin Sontakke9y ago
I don't think you can have multiple destinations in a single invocation.

However, what you can do is have multiple command windows open with single source but different destination.

This is even more simpler to do in C#. Write a function which would create a new process info object (google, "execute a program from c# code"). Call this function with different destination parameter and it will automatically start different execution threads.