I recently became fascinated with a tool called Robocopy. It is a command-line utility for copying files/folders that is very robust. The name in itself is Rob ust Copy. Now for those of you SysAdmin guys, you would know how to use a command-line/terminal window. But for you average dudes and dudettes, this might be a bit tricky. Not difficult, just different 😃 Now this utility can copy files especially in Windows, with a lot more information than just the file data. It can copy files/directories: over a network with resume capabilities. Useful if you have remote file servers. preserving date and time stamps. Amazing for backups. It even has a backup switch that extends this capability 😮 and skipped already copied files/directories and more Like all command line utilities, you can get more information about the usage by typing robocopy /? into the command-line. Here is a great guide for your reading .