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Alternative Use Cases
While PeterDocs has been built with the objective to transfer documents from
one computer to another where the computers are on isolated networks, there are
alternatives uses.
Documents on the same network
You can use PeterDocs to reconcile files transferred using the Windows
Robocopy command. Robocopy is installed by default on your Windows
system.
Robocopy does require your source and target folders to be accessible from the coputer that is executing the command.
To use PeterDocs and Robocopy install PeterDocs from the PowerShell Gallery
and execute the below commands in a PowerShell terminal, changing the values to suit.
New-PeterReconcile -ReconcileFile .\myrobocopy.csv -SourceFolder <Source> -ExcludeHash
robocopy <Source> <Destination> /mt /e /z /j /copy:DAT /dcopy:DAT /r:100 /eta /log+:robocopy_run.log /tee
Compare-Peter -ReconcileFile .\myrobocopy.csv -RestoreFolder <Destination> -ExcludeHash
The source and destination folders can be network paths i.e. start with \\
The above robocopy command retries 100 times failed copies. The default is a million with a 30 second wait time between retries. Probably no a realistic time before failing.
If you want to verify the HASH for each file copied, then remove the -ExcludeHash directive. Be
warned that generating a hash on both source and destination will take some time if you
have many files.
Further information on Robocopy can be found on the internet such as:
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy
- https://pureinfotech.com/robocopy-transfer-files-fast-network-windows-10/
- https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-quickly-back-up-just-your-data-in-windows-10-with-robocopys-multi-threaded-feature/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTzTeHmKMKw
Picture EXIF data
You can use PeterDocs to extract EXIF data from your picture files. To do
this just install PeterDocs from the PowerShell Gallery and execute the
below command in a PowerShell terminal, changing the values to suit.
New-PeterReconcile -ReconcileFile .\mypictures_metadata.csv -SourceFolder <Source> -ExcludeHash -IncludeExif
At the conclusion of the exceution, you will have a file named ##peter_exif##.csv that
contains your pictures metadata. You will also have a CSV file with picture file
general metadata named mypictures_metadata.csv such as creation time and size.
Further information on EXIF can be found on the internet such as: