Windows 10 Robocopy backup getting "access is denied" [Resolved]

[David_Boyd]

Folks: besides the internal Roon backup I also backup all my files (including Roon and its backups) to an off-site hard disk drive. I have done this many time without any issue…until now!

This is the bat file Robocopy command I am using:

robocopy C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Roon N:\Roon /FFT /TEE /NP “/LOG:C:\Users\David\Documents\Backups\Log Roon L-N.txt” /MIR

I am getting Error 5 “access is denied” on files. If I stop the bat and start again the backup goes past the previous Error 5 points but eventually stops at another.

Any idea as to what is (newly) causing this

Thanks in advance

[Carl]

Hi,

Did you make sure Roon was not running when the backup was Run?

[David_Boyd]

Yes. Did a Roon-internal backup this morning; closed Roon; tried Robocopy; got Error 5s; did a re-start of laptop (thinking maybe files had be left open/locked; once laptop back up and running tried the backup; same result

I’ll re-try later but I’m expecting same result. Very odd as I’ve done Roon backups many times over the last two years or so

Thanks

[David_Boyd]

I found fix on the net. I added the following to my Robocopy command

/copy:DT

Hope this helps anyone else having same issue in future