What is the copyfiles utility?

Sometimes, to speed up the archiving process, you may need to copy .msg files directly to the ASM queue folder [<ASM root>\engine\queue]

The Copyfiles utility can be useful if:

- It's necessary to copy an entire IMAP folder (including its subfolders) into the queue.
- After an ASM reinstallation where the Database was corrupted
- if you are experiencing problems with ASM uploader or with IMAP importing.

This command line utility, contained in the folder of ASM root, allows you to copy all the files with a certain extension from a folder tree (e.g. ASM repository) to a single destination folder like the ASM archiving queue folder.

To use it you need to: (assuming ASM is installed on the C drive)

1. Open the Windows command prompt
2. Type:
 cd\
 cd [ASM root]\tool
3. Type:
 copyfiles to display the correct syntax for the command
or
 copyfiles [/s] [] [-p ]

where

/s --> will copy the entire subfolder structure
--> absolute path of the source folder
--> absolute path of the destination folder
<extension> --> only copy the files with the extension specified (without the ".", ex. msg)
-p --> permits to specify a password if files had been previously encrypted (in case the source is ASM repository)

- If is an ASM repository that was previously compressed you don't need to specify anything else. Copyfiles and ASM automatically reads these kind of files.

- The time required for the tool to start copying files could be quite long because the process need to count all the files in the tree before proceeding.

- If you plan to import a huge number of files (> 100,000) it's better to split the process into multiple jobs, for example importing only one month for each command issued:

/2007/02
/2007/01
/2006/12
/2006/11
/2006/10
/2006/09
etc.

Below is an example of some VBscript kindly given by an ASM user that you can use for this purpose (Achab does not guarantee the correct functioning)

######################
'feedASMqueue.vbs
'written by Simon Meggle
'Schedule this script to run every minute to feed the ASM queue
'######################

Dim var_source, var_dest
'adapt these paths
 var_source = "R:\AS-Temp-Queue2\" 'move files from the old repository into this temp path (copyfiles.exe /s

[old_repository_path] [temp_path]
 var_dest = "R:\ASM\engine\queue\" 'this is the "hot" queue of the ASM installation

Dim fso
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Dim arrFiles()
Dim i
i = 0

Set myFolder = fso.GetFolder(var_source)
Set myFiles = myFolder.Files

For Each myfile In myFiles
'OK.... not professional, but it works
 ReDim preserve arrFiles(i)
 arrFiles(i) = myfile.Name
 i = i+1
Next

Dim sum_files
sum_files = myFiles.Count

'depending on mySQL performance, this is the amount of e-mails which should ASM queu feeded with every minute.

'Feed the queue manually with 100 emails and watch the system performance to get a feeling for the right amount of emails per minute.
If sum_files > 100 Then
 sum_files = 100
End If

For i = 0 To (sum_files - 1)
'copy all files except HIWATER.MRK
 If Not arrFiles(i) = "HIWATER.MRK" Then
  fso.MoveFile var_source & arrFiles(i), var_dest & arrFiles(i)
 End If
Next

Set myFolder = Nothing
Set myFiles = Nothing

'Importing ~40.000 e-mails took about 7-8 hours with a medium server load.