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Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69- 57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

30 MB of free disk space
Windows XP 2600
Windows XP SP1
Windows Server 2003 family (3790)

Direct Link: 12049 KB
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/e/c/8ec3a7d8-05b4-440a-a71e-ca3ee25fe057 /rktools.exe

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Notice that the installer only allows you to install onto either XP or Server 2003, but ROBOCOPY itself runs on NT/2000/XP/2003

Here is how you can get your copy if you don't have XP or 2003 to install on.

Download the file and execute it, but DON'T click next to quit the installer when you get a notice about it not being supported except on XP/2003. Using Total Commander with the MSI plugin you can extract all files from the .msi file.

This tool is SHAREWARE $28, but allows you to FREELY demo it
Download the tool, and download the MSI plugin.
Install it for testing, and then extract your files.

Total Commander
- Latest version: Total Commander v5.51
- Release date :18 Feb. 2003
Download Links
http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/54757.shtml
http://fileforum.betanews.com/download.php?fid=945901171

Microsoft .MSI Installer plugin for Total Commander
The plugin provides basic support for browsing and extracting from .msi (microsoft installer) archives.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/maxwish/tc_wcx/wcx_msi.zip

WARNING!! DO NOT run some of these tools from your NT/2000 system as they may not be compatible. Make sure you know what the tool is and does before running it. There is a help file included that explains what all of the tools are used for.

If someone knows of a Completely FREE tool for extracting .MSI files please post the link and information here.

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Robocopy is a 32-bit command-line tool used for file replication. This tool helps maintain identical copies of a directory structure on a single computer or in separate network locations. Robocopy is included in the Microsoft® Windows® Resource Kit.

Important
Robocopy version XP010 requires Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Microsoft® Windows® XP, Microsoft® Windows® 2000, or Microsoft® Windows NT® version 4.0.

Using Robocopy, you can copy a single directory, or you can recursively copy a directory and its subdirectories. The tool classifies files by whether they exist in the source directory, in the destination directory, or in both. In the latter case, the tool further classifies files by comparing time stamps and file sizes between the source file and the corresponding destination file. You control which classes of files are copied.
If a file exists in both the source and destination locations, by default Robocopy copies the file only if the two versions have different time stamps or different sizes. This saves time if the source and destination are connected by a slow network link. You can also specify that copies are restarted in the event of a failure, which saves even more time when your network links are unreliable.
Robocopy allows you to do the following:
• Use file names, wildcard characters, paths, or file attributes to include or exclude source files as candidates for copying.
• Exclude directories by name or by path.
• Delete source files and directories after copying (that is, move rather than copy them).
• Delete destination files and directories that no longer exist in the source.
• Control the number of times the program retries an operation after encountering a recoverable network error.
• Schedule copy jobs to run automatically.
• Specify when copying is to be performed.
• Monitor a directory tree for changes.
• Selectively copy file data.

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• Copy Junctions – Volume Mount Points and Directory Links. By default these are copied as normal directories, as it may not be possible to create an equivalent Junction in the destination, especially if the source and destination reside on different machines. Copying a tree that contains a Volume Mount Point can result in unexpectedly large volumes of data being copied.
  Use /XJ if you would prefer Robocopy to skip Junctions.
• Act on and modify more file attributes.
  In addition to support for the R, A, S, and H attributes:
  /XA and /IA now also accept and select on the following addition file attributes:
  C – Compressed files
  N – files Not content indexed
  E – Encrypted files
  T – Temporary files
  O – Offline files
  /A+ and /A- now also accept and modify the following additional attribute type:
  N – files Not content indexed
  T – Temporary files
• Select files based on their Last Accessed Dates.
• Copy a new class of file : “Tweaked” files.
  A Tweaked file is defined to be one that exists in both the source and destination,
  with identical size and timestamp, but different attribute settings.
• Copy very long path names (longer that 256 characters).
  Previous versions of Robocopy would fail to copy any pathname longer than 256 characters. The program has now been enhanced to handle pathnames of any length, up to the internal Windows limit of nearlt 32,000 characters.
• Get better information on data volumes for large copies.
  Previous versions of Robocopy used 32-bit counters which would overflow when more than 2 gigabytes of data was processed, resulting in incorrect output in the run summary. This version now uses 64-bit counters to avoid this problem.
• More easily correlate Robocopy errors to network errors.
  Robocopy now displays the date and time that errors occur to assist in tracking down communication problems.
• Recover more quickly and robustly from file copy failures.
  This version of Robocopy now timestamps destination files with a January 1980 date during copies. Thus, if a copy of a newer file is interrupted and re-run, the destination file will seem to be older than the source file and be copied correctly.
• Copy files in Backup Mode.
  Use the /B switch to copy all files in Backup Mode. Use the /ZB switch to try to copy files in Restartable Mode (for greater resiliency), and automatically switch to Backup Mode if the Restartable copy fails with an “Access Denied” error.