Copy-item Files in Folders and subfolders in the same directory structure of source server using PowerShell

Question

I am struggling really hard to get this below script worked to copy the files in folders and sub folders in the proper structure  As the source server    Lets say  there are folders mentioned below   Main Folder  File aaa  File bbb  Sub Folder a  File 1  File 2  File 3  Sub Folder b  File 4  File 5  File 6  Script used   Get-ChildItem -Path   Server1 Test -recurse   ForEach-Object   Copy-Item -LiteralPath    FullName -Destination   server2 test   Get-Acl -Path    FullName   Set-Acl -Path    server2 test   Split-Path -Path    FullName -Leaf        Output  File aaa  File bbb  Sub Folder a  Empty Folder   Sub Folder b  Empty Folder   File 1  File 2  File 3  File 4  File 5  File 6   I want the files to get copied to their respective folders  Like the source folders   Any further help is highly appreciated

User · Answer

I had trouble with the most popular answer (overthinking). It put AFolder in the \Server\MyFolder\AFolder and I wanted the contents of AFolder and below in MyFolder. This didn't work.

Copy-Item -Verbose -Path C:\MyFolder\AFolder -Destination \\Server\MyFolder -recurse -Force

Plus I needed to Filter and only copy *.config files.

This didn't work, with "\*" because it did not recurse

Copy-Item -Verbose -Path C:\MyFolder\AFolder\* -Filter *.config -Destination \\Server\MyFolder -recurse -Force

I ended up lopping off the beginning of the path string, to get the childPath relative to where I was recursing from. This works for the use-case in question and went down many subdirectories, which some other solutions do not.

Get-Childitem -Path "$($sourcePath)/**/*.config" -Recurse | 
ForEach-Object {
  $childPath = "$_".substring($sourcePath.length+1)
  $dest = "$($destPath)\$($childPath)" #this puts a \ between dest and child path
  Copy-Item -Verbose -Path $_ -Destination $dest -Force   
}

User · Answer

This can be done just using Copy-Item   No need to use Get-Childitem   I think you are just overthinking it   Copy-Item -Path C  MyFolder -Destination   Server MyFolder -recurse -Force   I just tested it and it worked for me   edit  included suggestion from the comments    Add wildcard to source folder to ensure consistent behavior Copy-Item -Path  sourceFolder   -Destination  targetFolder -Recurse

User · Answer

one time i found this script  this copy folder and files and keep the same structure of the source in the destination  you can make some tries with this     Find the source files  sourceDir  X  sourceFolder     Set the target file  targetDir  Y  Destfolder   Get-ChildItem  sourceDir -Include     -Recurse    foreach          Remove the original  root folder      split      Fullname  -split           DestFile     split 1    split Length - 1   -join             Build the new  destination file path      DestFile    targetDir  DestFile        Move-Item won t  create the folder structure so we have to        create a blank file  and then overwrite it      null   New-Item -Path   DestFile -Type File -Force     Move-Item -Path     FullName -Destination  DestFile -Force

User · Answer

If you want to mirror same content from source to destination  try following one   function CopyFilesToFolder   fromFolder   toFolder         childItems   Get-ChildItem  fromFolder      childItems   ForEach-Object            Copy-Item -Path    FullName -Destination  toFolder -Recurse -Force           Test   CopyFilesToFolder  C  temp q   c  temp w

User · Answer

I wanted a solution to copy files modified after a certain date and time which mean t I need to use Get-ChildItem piped through a filter  Below is what I came up with    SourceFolder    C  Users RCoode Documents Visual Studio 2010 Projects MyProject   ArchiveFolder    J  Temp Robin Deploy MyProject   ChangesStarted   New-Object System DateTime 2013 10 16 11 0 0   IncludeFiles       vb     cs     aspx     js     css    Get-ChildItem  SourceFolder -Recurse -Include  IncludeFiles   Where-Object     LastWriteTime -gt  ChangesStarted    ForEach-Object        PathArray      FullName Replace  SourceFolder     ToString   Split             Folder    ArchiveFolder      for   i 1   i -lt  PathArray length-1   i               Folder           PathArray  i          if    Test-Path  Folder                 New-Item -ItemType directory -Path  Folder                         NewPath   Join-Path  ArchiveFolder    FullName Replace  SourceFolder          Copy-Item    FullName -Destination  NewPath

[powershell] Copy-item Files in Folders and subfolders in the same directory structure of source server using PowerShell

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