Robocopy: ERROR 5 (0x00000005)

Ashwin Uncategorized 2010-03-20 1 Minute

I have faced this Robocopy error many times:

2010/03/20 11:48:37 ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying File C:\Foobar.pdf
Access is denied.
Waiting 30 seconds...

The reasons for this error are many and the fixes depends on the reasons:

Check if the destination disk is full.
Try the /COPY:DT option. By default, Robocopy copies using the option /COPY:DAT. This copies the Data, Attributes and Timestamps. /COPY:DT ignores the Attributes.

Published by Ashwin

Published 2010-03-20

Stephane says:

2010-08-12 at 03:19

Yep, It worked…
Strange enough, the first part of my files to copy was copying correctly, and the second part was giving me this error.
Using the /COPY:DT parameter did the job!
Thanks

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Matt says:

2010-11-07 at 05:36

Thanks a million, helped me out big time.

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Fousha says:

2011-09-08 at 16:28

Great its work like a magic

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Chris C says:

2011-09-28 at 04:35

If you changed it from “DAT to DT” wouldnt that make the command “ALWAYS COPY” the data regaurdless if it has been changed or not?

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1. Ashwin Nanjappa says:
  
  2011-10-04 at 10:55
  
  Chris: That is correct. I was doing a one-way copying with that command.
  
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Decio says:

2012-02-23 at 00:24

Thanks a lot!

Using /COPY:DT it worked.

Funny that it was working before without it….

Thanks again,

Decio

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Nando says:

2015-06-27 at 16:10

This drive me crazy..

and after I see ntfs datastreams on the non backed up files

the solution is:

download streams.exe

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897440.aspx

and run recursevely on yuo directory (the backup source)

streams.exe -s -d C:\directorytobackup

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