hi all is there a way to use robocopy and keep the folders compressed as they were in their previous location? I'm using it on Windows server 2003/2008

Hello, AFAIK you can't during copying/moving data to a new location the data will be uncompressed and you have to compress it again after the copy/move. That may be achieved with a script running after the process. Therefore i would suggest to ask in: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/ITCG/threads http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/default.aspx Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.

Aggghhhh, was hoping there is a switch i can use in robocopy that would do this for me...thanks for your response anyway Meinolf