I got a script:
$CopySource = "C:\Source\Qlikview Storage\PrivateData\Gemensamma\Qvd_Raw\Agresso"
$CopyDestination = "C:\Dest\Qlikview Storage\PrivateData\Gemensamma\Qvd_Raw\Agresso"
$files = Get-ChildItem -File "*.qvd" $CopySource -Force
foreach ($file in $files) {
Copy-Item -path $CopySource\$_$file -Destination $CopyDestination -Force
}
$CopySource = "C:\Source\Qlikview Storage\PrivateData\Gemensamma\Qvd_Raw\Agresso"
$CopyDestination = "C:\Dest\Qlikview Storage\PrivateData\Gemensamma\Qvd_Raw\Agresso"
$items = Get-ChildItem -File "*.qvd" $CopyDestination
foreach($I in $Items) {
$newfilename= rename-item -path $I.Name -newname ("Agresso_" + $I.Name)
The problem I have is that I need to copy files from source to destination and once they are over they need to have agresso_ added. Then they day after a batch of files will be copied again and also they need to be renamed to agresso_ and overwrite the old ones, preferably with move-item. I got a problem already, as I am not used with prefixes,
I tried enless of versions with where-object and simular, could not figure out a way to use test-path either.
I did exactly this but with renaming the files, like this for maximo:
$files = Get-ChildItem -File "*.qvd" $CopySource -Force
foreach ($file in $files) {
Copy-Item -path $CopySource\$_$file -Destination $CopyDestination -Force -Verbose 4>&1 |
Out-File -Append $logpath
}
"Klar med Kopiering av .qvd filer $global:currenttime" | Out-File $logpath -Append
"Påbörjar omdöpning av .qvd filer $global:currenttime" | Out-File $logpath -Append
$items = Get-ChildItem -File "*.qvd" $CopyDestination
foreach($I in $Items) {
$newfilename=$I.Name.Replace("QVDLager1","Maximo")
Move-Item -Path $I.FullName -Destination $CopyDestination\$newfilename -Force -Verbose 4>&1 |
Out-File -Append $logpath
If anyone can help me in the right direction it would be highly appriciated.
You can copy (or move) and rename the destination at the same time:
$CopySource = "C:\Source\Qlikview Storage\PrivateData\Gemensamma\Qvd_Raw\Agresso"
$CopyDestination = "C:\Dest\Qlikview Storage\PrivateData\Gemensamma\Qvd_Raw\Agresso"
Get-ChildItem -Path $CopySource -File "*.qvd" -Force | ForEach-Object {
# create the full path for the target file with "Agresso_" prefixed
$target = Join-Path -Path $CopyDestination -ChildPath ('Agresso_{0}' -f $_.Name)
$_ | Copy-Item -Destination $target -WhatIf
}
If satisfied with the results of the code shown in the console, you can remove the -WhatIf switch to really start copying (or moving) the files.
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Trying to get my copy-item to copy everything in directory except a subfolder. I was able to exclude in the folder and files, but not subfolders.
I tried using get-children and the -exclude in the copy-item but didn't exclude them as I hope
$exclude = "folder\common"
Get-ChildItem "c:\test" -Directory |
Where-Object{$_.Name -notin $exclude} |
Copy-Item -Destination 'C:\backup' -Recurse -Force
Hoping that the common folder will exist but nothing in it would be copy.
Thanks for the help
I think this should do what you need:
$sourceFolder = 'C:\test'
$destination = 'C:\backup'
$exclude = #("folder\common") # add more folders to exclude if you like
# create a regex of the folders to exclude
# each folder will be Regex Escaped and joined together with the OR symbol '|'
$notThese = ($exclude | ForEach-Object { [Regex]::Escape($_) }) -join '|'
Get-ChildItem -Path $sourceFolder -Recurse -File |
Where-Object{ $_.DirectoryName -notmatch $notThese } |
ForEach-Object {
$target = Join-Path -Path $destination -ChildPath $_.DirectoryName.Substring($sourceFolder.Length)
if (!(Test-Path -Path $target -PathType Container)) {
New-Item -Path $target -ItemType Directory | Out-Null
}
$_ | Copy-Item -Destination $target -Force
}
Hope that helps
I think using the -exclude parameter on Get-ChildItem would work:
$exclude = 'Exclude this folder','Exclude this folder 2','Folder3'
Get-ChildItem -Path "Get these folders" -Exclude $exclude | Copy-Item -Destination "Send folders here"
Here is an example:
$exclude= 'subfolderA'
$path = 'c:\test'
$fileslist = gci $path -Recurse
foreach ($i in 0..$fileslist){ if( -not ($i.Fullname -like "*$($exlusion)*")){ copy-item -path $i.fullname -Destination 'C:\backup' -Force } }
Hi this is the first time I create a program using powershell, I created a powershell script to move old files that are not in use to a NAS, the code works as what I want, but I need a Log.txt file for find out what files have been moved. can someone please help me?
$Date = Get-Date -UFormat %d-%m-%Y
$Source = 'C:\Source\'
$Temp = 'C:\Backup-Temp\'
$Nas = 'D:\Destination\'
$Ext = "*.zip","*.rar"
$SetTime = '-5'
New-Item -Path $Temp -Name "Backup-$Date" -ItemType "directory"
Foreach ($Ext in $Ext) {
get-childitem -Path "$Source" -Recurse |
Where-object {$_.LastWriteTime -lt (get-date).AddDays($SetTime) -and $_.name -like "$Ext"} |
Move-item -destination "$Temp\Backup-$Date" |
Compress-Archive -Path "$Temp\Backup-$Date" -DestinationPath "$Nas\Backup-$date.Zip"
}
$Date = Get-Date -UFormat %d-%m-%Y
$Source = 'C:\Source\'
$Temp = 'C:\Backup-Temp\'
$Nas = 'D:\Destination\'
$Ext = "*.zip","*.rar"
$SetTime = '-5'
$LogFileFullName = 'c:\tmp\log.txt'
function Write-Log([string]$msg){
Out-File -FilePath $LogFileFullName -InputObject "$([DateTime]::Now): $msg" -Append
}
New-Item -Path $Temp -Name "Backup-$Date" -ItemType "directory"
Foreach ($Ext in $Ext) {
get-childitem -Path "$Source" -Recurse |
Where-object {$_.LastWriteTime -lt (get-date).AddDays($SetTime) -and $_.name -like "$Ext"} |
ForEach-Object {
Move-item $_.FullName -destination "$Temp\Backup-$Date" |
Compress-Archive -Path "$Temp\Backup-$Date" -DestinationPath "$Nas\Backup-$date.Zip"
Write-Log $_.FullName
}
}
You could just add the following to your chain of piped commands:
Add-Content $logfile "$_.name`n"
where $logfile is set to a static filename prior.
I may be old-fashioned, but having so many commands in one chain is prone to failure. It would be more resilient to break-up the chain so that you can include some error checking along the way.
A better but less desirable option would be to put your chain within a try/catch block.
Best of luck.
I need to make basic / or more advanced backup script that would copy items from folder A to folder B and then log what it did.
This copies the files just fine:
$source = 'path\gamybinis\*'
$dest = 'path\backup'
Get-ChildItem -Path $source -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -gt [datetime]::Now.AddMinutes(-5)
}| Copy-Item -Destination $dest -Recurse -Force
Write-Host "Backup started"
Pause
But after this I can't write the log with | Out-File, So I've tried this:
$source = 'path\gamybinis\*'
$dest = 'path\backup'
$logFile = 'path\log.txt'
$items = Get-ChildItem -Path $source -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -gt [datetime]::Now.AddMinutes(-5)
}
foreach($item in $items){
Out-File -FilePath $logFile -Append
Copy-Item -Path "$source\$item" -Destination $dest -Recurse -Force
}
Write-Host "Backup started"
Pause
This one does absolutely nothing, what exactly am I doing wrong?
(Advanced script part would be: backing up recently modified files then files should be archived to .rar/.zip, log file have to have structure that is easily readable and log file should have information which user was working on the device during the backup) - For those who are wondering.
If you can't use robocopy, in pure PowerShell code you could do this
$source = 'path\gamybinis' # no need for '\*' because you're specifying -Recurse
$dest = 'path\backup'
$logFile = 'path\log.txt'
# test if the destination path exists. If not, create it first
if (!(Test-Path -Path $dest -PathType Container)) {
$null = New-Item -Path $dest -ItemType Directory
}
Write-Host "Backup started"
Get-ChildItem -Path $source -Recurse |
Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-5) } |
ForEach-Object {
$_ | Copy-Item -Destination $dest -Recurse -Force
Add-Content -Path $logFile -Value "$((Get-Date).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")) - Copied file '$($_.FullName)'"
}
Write-Host "Backup done"
From your comments, I understand you have problems when using the -Container switch.
Below code does not use that and creates the folder structure of the copied files in the backup folder, strictly using Powershell code:
$source = 'path\gamybinis' # no need for '\*' because you're specifying -Recurse
$dest = 'path\backup'
$logFile = 'path\log.txt'
Write-Host "Backup started"
Get-ChildItem -Path $source -File -Recurse |
Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-5) } |
ForEach-Object {
$target = Join-Path -Path $dest -ChildPath $_.DirectoryName.Substring($source.Length)
if (!(Test-Path $target -PathType Container)) {
# create the folder if it does not already exist
$null = New-Item -Path $target -ItemType Directory
}
$_ | Copy-Item -Destination $target -Force
Add-Content -Path $logFile -Value "$((Get-Date).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")) - Copied file '$($_.FullName)'"
}
Write-Host "Backup done"
Trying to get my copy-item to copy everything in directory except a subfolder. I was able to exclude in the folder and files, but not subfolders.
I tried using get-children and the -exclude in the copy-item but didn't exclude them as I hope
$exclude = "folder\common"
Get-ChildItem "c:\test" -Directory |
Where-Object{$_.Name -notin $exclude} |
Copy-Item -Destination 'C:\backup' -Recurse -Force
Hoping that the common folder will exist but nothing in it would be copy.
Thanks for the help
I think this should do what you need:
$sourceFolder = 'C:\test'
$destination = 'C:\backup'
$exclude = #("folder\common") # add more folders to exclude if you like
# create a regex of the folders to exclude
# each folder will be Regex Escaped and joined together with the OR symbol '|'
$notThese = ($exclude | ForEach-Object { [Regex]::Escape($_) }) -join '|'
Get-ChildItem -Path $sourceFolder -Recurse -File |
Where-Object{ $_.DirectoryName -notmatch $notThese } |
ForEach-Object {
$target = Join-Path -Path $destination -ChildPath $_.DirectoryName.Substring($sourceFolder.Length)
if (!(Test-Path -Path $target -PathType Container)) {
New-Item -Path $target -ItemType Directory | Out-Null
}
$_ | Copy-Item -Destination $target -Force
}
Hope that helps
I think using the -exclude parameter on Get-ChildItem would work:
$exclude = 'Exclude this folder','Exclude this folder 2','Folder3'
Get-ChildItem -Path "Get these folders" -Exclude $exclude | Copy-Item -Destination "Send folders here"
Here is an example:
$exclude= 'subfolderA'
$path = 'c:\test'
$fileslist = gci $path -Recurse
foreach ($i in 0..$fileslist){ if( -not ($i.Fullname -like "*$($exlusion)*")){ copy-item -path $i.fullname -Destination 'C:\backup' -Force } }
Trying to copy an updated shortcut to a wildcard path. The code works when I run it in a test scenario on the local machine:
$Source1 = "C:\Temp\Updated Shortcut\MyShortcut.lnk"
$destination1 = "C:\Temp\Users\*\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\MyShortcut.lnk"
Get-ChildItem -Path $destination1 | ForEach-Object { Copy-Item -Path $Source1 -Destination $_.DirectoryName }
But running it against the production target path does not work:
$Source1 = "C:\Temp\Updated Shortcut\MyShortcut.lnk"
$destination1 = "U:\Users\*\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\MyShortcut.lnk"
Get-ChildItem -Path $destination1 | ForEach-Object { Copy-Item -Path $Source1 -Destination $_.DirectoryName }
It will also work if I remove the wildcard and use an actual path:
$Source1 = "C:\Temp\Updated Shortcut\MyShortcut.lnk"
$destination1 = "U:\Users\JohnSmith\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\MyShortcut.lnk"
Get-ChildItem -Path $destination1 | ForEach-Object { Copy-Item -Path $Source1 -Destination $_.DirectoryName }
The U:\Users folder does contain 1181 folders in there (one for each of the 1181 users), so not sure if that may be an issue too??
Just because code can be written on one line or using a pipeline, does not mean that code is easy to debug or maintain.
Break your code down, debug it, add some logging, etc.
$Source1 = "C:\Temp\Updated Shortcut\MyShortcut.lnk"
$destination1 = "U:\Users\*\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\MyShortcut.lnk"
$items = Get-ChildItem -Path $destination1
Write-Verbose "Number of items: $($items.Count)" -Verbose
foreach ($item in $items)
{
Write-Verbose "Item: $item" -Verbose
# use -Force here? Does $_ have a DirectoryName property?
#
#Copy-Item -Path $Source1 -Destination $_.DirectoryName
Copy-Item -Path $Source1 -Destination $item -Force -WhatIf
}
My guess is that once you start looking into the diagnostics, you will isolate the issues quickly.