PowerShell - Robocopy

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Hello, I’ve got no PowerShell experience, however I’ve got a situation where I need to make use of it to copy some folders.

$Source = Get-ChildItem “\ServerA\Backups\BU002\Backups” -recurse -exclude “STAGING_BACKUP_*” | Where-Object {$.PSIsContainer -eq $true -and $.Name -match “BACKUP”} $Dest = “\ServerB\Backups\BU002\Backups” robocopy $source $Dest /NP /E /W:10 /R:4 /X /V /Copy:DT /MAXAGE:2
How can I only copy the entire BACKUP folder and not just the contents within the folder, if that makes sense?
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Deano, welcome to Powershell.org. Please take a moment and read the very first post on top of the list of this forum: Read Me Before Posting! You’ll be Glad You Did!.

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Thanks in advance.

That’s actually more a robocopy question than Powershell. :wink: robocopy takes as the source only a single folder path. You cannot provide an array. So if I got it right this should be enough:

$Source = ‘\ServerA\Backups\BU002\Backups\BACKUP’

$Dest = ‘\ServerB\Backups\BU002\Backups\Backup’

robocopy $source $Dest /NP /E /W:10 /R:4 /X /V /Copy:DT /MAXAGE:2

If that’s not what you want you will have to elaborate a little more detailed about your task.

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Apologies, noted!

In my source location I would like to filter on a specific folder (“BACKUP”) and copy that folder to the destination and not just the contents within the folder if that makes sense.

 

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What do you mean with filter? If you know the name (path) of the folder just provide this name (path).

That does make sense and I already showed you above how to achieve this. You have to include the name of the folder in the destination path you provide for robocopy.

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Hi Dinko, a couple of things,

1 - Olaf showed you how to do it if you only have one back-up folder
2 - If you are expecting to get more than one folder returned, then you need to do a ForEach loop (ForEach ($Folder in $Source))
3 - Robocopy expects you to provide the full path, so you need to get the property “FullName” for the folder, so your first command could look like this:

$Source = Get-ChildItem "\\ServerA\Backups\BU002\Backups" -Recurse -Exclude "STAGING_BACKUP_*" -Include "BACKUP" -Directory | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName

4 - You only have a single slash in each UNC path instead of the expected \

Hope this helps.

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Dinko just registered to the site.

Since i feel this is a bit related id like to see if you can review.

I cannot create a new thread waiting on the registration authorization. #waiting

ForEach ($system in (Get-Content C:\book1.txt)) {
# Retrieve a list of computers to connect to
$file = "\\$system\c$\CPI\Desktop\desktop.log"
#location of the file to retrieve
# Is the File there?
if ( Test-Path $file){
# Yup now make a copy of that file into local computer
copy "c:\CPI\Desktop\desktop.log" -Destination "\\my computer\c$\LETS\$system\"
}
}

`I believe the problem is on the copy #my intent is to copy from the $system ls to the -destination my local computer. on the if cmdlet can it pull the $system variable or does it “know” its within the $system ls/dir

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Art, welcome to Powershell.org. Please take a moment and read the very first post on top of the list of this forum: Read Me Before Posting! You’ll be Glad You Did!.

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My apologies i hope it looks better. Thanks for the kind assistance to formatting.

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You post probably is on hold for moderation. You probably editted too often in a short amount of time. The forum software (spam and malware detection) does not like that. :wink: