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c#exit-coderobocopy

Robocopy Success/Failure reported via Window's application

thanks in advance for your time.

I'm working on an application to automate some of the things that I have to check each day.

One of them is making sure that all of our daily Robocopies took place successfully.

I'm having issues figuring out the best way to communicate this to my program. I've looked into the various Exit codes that Robocopy uses which would be very useful, but is there anyway to output this to a file, and would there be anyway to know which backup it was associated with?

Sorry if this is vague, please let me know of any other info that could be of use.

Thanks, Will

Solution

  • If you start the robocopy process from your application you could check the exit code from there.

    Process myProcess = null;

// Start the process.
myProcess = Process.Start("robocopy ....");

myProcess.WaitForExit(1000);

Console.WriteLine("Process exit code: {0}",  myProcess.ExitCode);

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.exitcode(v=vs.110).aspx