Question : Differences between xcopy, scopy, permcopy and robocopy

I am moving directories with subdirectories from 2000 server to 2003 server both NTFS. These folders have shares and share permissions AND security permissions. I have heard of xcopy, scopy, permcopy and robocopy. Which one should I use and in which order? What does each one do? Whats the best way to get this done using freeware/comercial software?

Answer : Differences between xcopy, scopy, permcopy and robocopy

>> I am moving directories with ...
Copy or Move ?

- Just for copy from one to another folder (use Xcopy)
- Keep same source and destination folder data each time ? (use Robocopy) it will copy 100% same data from source to destination. It means it also remove old file/folder from destination folder when those files/folders are not existing in source folder.

Anyway,  all depend on what do you want  ?

*Xcopy
-XCOPY copies files or groups of files to and from directories. Especially useful for copying data to and from a fixed disk.
http://www.ss64.com/nt/xcopy.html

*Scopy
-Copy complete with NTFS Security Permissions
http://www.ss64.com/nt/scopy.html

* Permcopy
- Copy share & file ACLs from one share to another.

*Robocopy
- By default Robocopy will only copy a file if the source and destination have different time stamps or different file sizes.  By copying only the files that have changed, robocopy can be used to backup very large volumes. To limit the network bandwidth used by robocopy
http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html

* NTbackup is backup tool, it is not used for data movement from one to another.