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1

Hello guys

Thanks to you I was able to resolve many issues in these cases of copy (one-to-one, one-to-many, with all kinds of exceptions that I needed).

But still can not find a simple way to log success or failure

example:

$a = Get-Content c:\temp\servers.txt

foreach ($i in $a) {

Copy-Item "C:\temp\Source\*" -Recurse -Destination "\\$i\c$\destination\" -force -EA SilentlyContinue 
}

Works great, but I do not know how to extract a log if some of these servers is offline, if any file on the target can not be overwritten, etc.

sorry for misspelling

thank you very much

2

You can put any error messages generated by a cmdlet into a variable with the ErrorVariable common parameter. Then, you can save the error in a file by piping the variable into Out-File.

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-Service kkkkkk -ErrorVariable e

Get-Service : Cannot find any service with service name 'kkkkkk'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-Service kkkkkk -ErrorVariable e
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (kkkkkk:String) [Get-Service], ServiceCommandException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoServiceFoundForGivenName,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetServiceCommand
 

PS C:\Windows\system32> $e

Get-Service : Cannot find any service with service name 'kkkkkk'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-Service kkkkkk -ErrorVariable e
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (kkkkkk:String) [Get-Service], ServiceCommandException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoServiceFoundForGivenName,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetServiceCommand
 

PS C:\Windows\system32> $e | Out-File c:\error.txt

You can append other errors to the error varible like this: Get-Service bbbbbbbbb -ErrorVariable +e

You can also have a look at the help file: about_CommonParameters

I hope it helped!

3

You could also do a test-connection to each of the servers to ensure that those servers are actually available before doing your copy-item

you could then log the failed test connections with the error variable mentioned above instead of logging a failed copy or log that separately also - which could actually be for a different reason.

4

thanks, I try some scenarios and not capable use this examples

I try something like

$computer = Get-Content C:\temp\computer.txt

foreach ($c in $computer) {

if (Test-Connection -ComputerName $c -Count 1 -Quiet ) 
{
Copy-Item C:\temp\AKANE.JPG -Destination \\$c\c$\ranma\ -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ErrorVariable copy_log
}
if ($copy_log) {Write-Output "On computer $c connection ok, but copy has fail" | out-file c:\temp\copy_log.txt
}
else
{ 
Write-Output "Computer $c is Offline" | Out-File C:\temp\connection_log.txt
}
}

The function copy its ok, but logs are going crazy.

its not working, is like -errorvariable put only the last computer on TXT logs.

thank you guys

5

try -append to the out-file that should capture each computer

6

success!!

Thank you Rashid, I forgot of this trick -append, very nice.

thank you Szarka, I did not know how to use errorvariable, another one to my tools.

$computer = Get-Content C:\temp\computer.txt
 
foreach ($c in $computer) {
 
if (Test-Connection -ComputerName $c -Count 1 -Quiet ) 
{
Copy-Item C:\temp\AKANE.JPG -Destination \\$c\c$\ranma\ -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ErrorVariable A
     if($A) {Write-Output "falha na cópia do Servidor $c" | out-file C:\temp\copy_log.txt -Append}
}
else
{ 
Write-Output "Computer $c is Offline" | Out-File C:\temp\copy_log.txt -Append
}
}