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Error 3 (0x00000003) Accessing Source Directory
script in Powershell that is to simulate a "Backup". It should copy files, using Robocopy, from user specified folders on a server to a user specified location elsewhere. Right now, I have been testing it various
Robocopy System Cannot Find Path Specified
ways. 1) One way I tried testing it was mapping the server's location as a network drive. I currently have it as drive V:\. Whenever I run the script, I get this error: Get-Item: Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'V' does not exist. ERROR 3 (0x00000003) Accessing Source Directory V:\ The System cannot find the path specified. I'm using Robocopy like this: robocopy $spath $newFolder /COPY:DAT /b 2) The robocopy error codes first time I tried test my script, I was trying to access directly to the server. $spath = \\###.###.##.###\ Whenver I tried this, this is the error I got: Get-Item : Cannot find path '\\###.###.##.###\' because it does not exist. ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Accessing Source Directory \\###.###.##.##\ Access is denied. I am running Powershell as an administrator, on the administrator account on this computer (It's just for testing, but it's a Windows 7 desktop). Any ideas? Edit: The destination path is a hard drive that we have connected USB 2.0 Edited by Cattzs Friday, June 29, 2012 2:22 PM Friday, June 29, 2012 2:21 PM Reply | Quote Answers 1 Sign in to vote Honestly not sure why it's not working for you.. I thought it might be something to do with the hidden share so I tried that and still couldn't reproduce the problem. judging by your screenshot you're calling your script with a parameter for the file containing the source pathso i wrote some .xml files to get the source and dest path from and it still worked o_O so i'm outta ideas! the below works perfectly here if thats any help. contents of testsourcelist.xml (i know it's not a valid xml file but i was feeling lazy) Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies robocopy error 3 network drive of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about robocopy error 1 hiring developers or posting ads with us Server Fault Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Server Fault is a question and answer site for system https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/f642415b-2b9e-43fe-88aa-ee660ed86508/robocopy-error-3-system-cannot-find-path-specified-and-error-5-access-denied?forum=winserverpowershell and network administrators. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Scheduled robocopy fails with error 3 (Creating Destination Directory) up vote 2 down vote favorite Related: Scheduled Robocopy http://serverfault.com/questions/522902/scheduled-robocopy-fails-with-error-3-creating-destination-directory task fails with 0x10 error I'm using robocopy as part of a server backup script. It fetches the files to this workstation (Windows 7, upgraded from Vista - that caused some quirks before), and then copies them to a server in LAN (Windows Server 2000). robocopy H:\folder \\SERVER\drive\folder /MIR /LOG:H:\backup.log /TBD /TEE When this task runs in scheduled tasks, usually the network folder has not been accessed yet by the computer since startup. As such, it usually ends up failing: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Started : Fri Jul 12 16:16:03 2013 2013/07/12 16:16:03 ERROR 3 (0x00000003) Getting File System Type of Destination \\SERVER\drive\folder The system cannot find the path specified. Source : H:\folder Dest - \\SERVER\drive\folder Files : *.* Options : *.* /TBD /TEE /S /E /COPY:DAT /PURGE /MIR /R:1000000 /W:30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2013/07/12 16:16:03 ERROR 3 (0x00000003) Creating Destination Directory \\SERVER\drive\folder The system cannot find the path specified. As you can see, 0×01 1 One or more files were copied successfully (that is, new files have arrived). 0×02 2 Some Extra files or directories were detected. No files were copied Examine the output log for details. 0×04 4 Some Mismatched http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy-exit.html files or directories were detected. Examine the output log. Housekeeping might be required. 0×08 8 Some files or directories could not be copied (copy errors occurred and the retry limit was exceeded). Check these errors further. 0×10 16 Serious error. Robocopy did not copy any files. Either a usage error or an error due to insufficient access privileges on the source or destination directories. These can be combined, giving a few extra exit codes: 0×03 3 (2+1) Some files were copied. robocopy error Additional files were present. No failure was encountered. 0×05 5 (4+1) Some files were copied. Some files were mismatched. No failure was encountered. 0×06 6 (4+2) Additional files and mismatched files exist. No files were copied and no failures were encountered. This means that the files already exist in the destination directory 0×07 7 (4+1+2) Files were copied, a file mismatch was present, and additional files were present. Any value greater than 7 indicates that there was at least one error 3 robocopy failure during the copy operation. You can use this in a batch file to report anomalies, as follows: if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 16 echo ***FATAL ERROR*** & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 15 echo OKCOPY + FAIL + MISMATCHES + XTRA & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 14 echo FAIL + MISMATCHES + XTRA & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 13 echo OKCOPY + FAIL + MISMATCHES & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 12 echo FAIL + MISMATCHES& goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 11 echo OKCOPY + FAIL + XTRA & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 10 echo FAIL + XTRA & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 9 echo OKCOPY + FAIL & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 8 echo FAIL & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 7 echo OKCOPY + MISMATCHES + XTRA & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 6 echo MISMATCHES + XTRA & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 5 echo OKCOPY + MISMATCHES & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 4 echo MISMATCHES & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 3 echo OKCOPY + XTRA & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 2 echo XTRA & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 1 echo OKCOPY & goto end if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 echo No Change & goto end :end Example: Copy files from one server to another ROBOCOPY \\Server1\reports \\Server2\backup *.*IF %ERRORLEVEL% LSS 8 goto finish Echo Something failed & goto :eof :finishEcho All done, no fatal errors. 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