Getting "Help" to work with an MSDN freeware utility

[BonzaiDuck]

I've grown concerned about my backup options for a WHS-2011 server using Stable-Bit Drive-Pool.

In order to back up the server with either the built-in Windows Backup feature or Acronis True-Image 2014, I must back up the duplicated folders from each and every drive in the pool. In doing this, the backup files still contain the duplication -- an unnecessary use of backup storage space.

Further web-search investigation points to the use of the RoboCopy feature first included with Win 2003, built-in to Win 7 and WHS-2011. RoboCopy is sort of an enhanced XCopy utility that would run in the command window, but you can write scripts for it. I suspect that it's even possible to schedule execution of the scripts, and it works like incremental backup.

MSDN first produced a GUI for RoboCopy entitled RoboCopy GUI. It was then updated or replaced by a GUI entitled RichCopy.

Now that I've installed it, I discover that the program's link to the Help file doesn't work, but you can access Help by simply clicking on the Help file and opening it separately.

Is there something I can do to assure that the Help is accessible through the RichCopy program -- as it is supposed to be?

 

[Micrornd]

Ok, first off I can't help you with that, other than to say the help file opens properly from the start menu.

Second, RichCopy hasn't been updated since 2009 and has been abandoned by the author, while RoboCopy is updated (or vetted) with each new OS version to assure that it continues to work properly.

RichCopy was never a replacement for RoboCopy, but rather an alternative, multi-threaded, without the requirement for NET Framework and it came with the GUI built-in.

RichCopy is an entire program installation, not a GUI replacement
When you install RichCopy, it does not remove or replace RoboCopy, it just coexists as another program.
If RoboCopy was installed, unless you uninstalled it before installing RichCopy, then RoboCopy is still there.

RoboCopy IS supported by MS, while RichCopy (the program and GUI) never was and a disclaimer as such always accompanied it.
The RoboCopy GUI from TechNet is not supported by MS either.

If you are not happy with the RoboCopy GUI offered on TechNet, "robocopy gui" in Google will bring up many frontends as alternatives.

This might help, if you are having problems with RoboCopy itself - http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html

BTW - Win7 and Server2008R2 users should update their RoboCopy using this MS Hotfix - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2639043

Oh, and RoboCopy has been around since WindowsNT, but wasn't included in the OS until Vista/Server2008.
Before that it was available in the Server OS Resource Kits or as download, if you knew where or who.