Robocopy
Imagine you need keep in sync two servers with 100 GB of data.
Some files are modified but you don’t know what they are. A possible solution would be delete everything and copy again. But it takes long, long time…
The utility Robocopy that comes with Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit can help to solve this problem. Once done a initial copy, it only copy next time the modified files. It can keep in sync files that was deleted in the target and bring together NTFS permissions.
Ideal to keep contingency’s file servers reducing a lot the time necessary to restore the server in case of disaster. Linux has Rsync, that does almost the same.
If you want to try: click here to download the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit that come with robocopy and many useful utilities.