How to display percentage complete in Robocopy?

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Is there a way to show the percentage completed in Robocopy? I am running with /NDL and /NFL, but I would like to see the overall percentage... is this possible?

Well over 10k views, and two question up-votes -- sounds about right. Best of luck to you, fellow Googler! — MrDuk, Jun 24 '16 at 20:39
I haven't tried yet with /ndl and /nfl but it's worth noting that robocopy does give a percentage by default e.g. `robocopy . .\a blah.big` (that's how to transfer an individual file http://serverfault.com/questions/52983/robocopy-transfer-file-and-not-folder ) and there switch to turn progress bar off says progress bar is default `/np Specifies that the progress of the copying operation (the number of files or directories copied so far) will not be displayed.` But I guess maybe you lose the progess bar with those switches you used — barlop, Jul 21 '16 at 14:49

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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I haven't found a way to do so. Instead I use PowerShell to do the copy and track progress.

This might be of use: Custom RoboCopy Progress Bar in PowerShell

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Jul 01 '13 at 18:27

Graham Gold

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score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 18 '23 at 17:29

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Append "/E /V /R:1 /W:5 /ETA" (without quotations) to the end of your command.

For example:

robocopy "C:\Test Folder" "\\TestPC\C$\Test Folder" *.* /E /V /R:1 /W:5 /ETA

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy

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answered Jan 15 '23 at 16:21

Zavier Brooks

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The /ETA just adds text like "16:46 -> 16:46" to the end of each individual file progress, so I'm not sure how this should solve the issue in discussion? – mBardos Mar 02 '23 at 14:49

score -4 · Answer 3 · edited May 11 '19 at 22:49

For others who come here from Google and don't normally read the comments, @barlop posted correctly:

I haven't tried yet with /ndl and /nfl but it's worth noting that robocopy does give a percentage by default e.g. robocopy . .\a blah.big (that's how to transfer an individual file http://serverfault.com/questions/52983/robocopy-transfer-file-and-not-folder ) and there switch to turn progress bar off says progress bar is default /np Specifies that the progress of the copying operation (the number of files or directories copied so far) will not be displayed. But I guess maybe you lose the progess bar with those switches you used

the default behavior of robocopy is to include percentages. Use /np to not include progress.

it indicate the per-file percentage, not a percentage for the whole job. — jumar, Sep 01 '17 at 14:49

How to display percentage complete in Robocopy?

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