Batch file to copy files from one folder to another folder

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I have a storage folder on a network in which all users will store their active data on a server  Now that server is going to be replaced by a new one due to place problem so I need to copy sub folders files from the old server storage folder to new server storage folder  I have below ex   from  Oldeserver storage data  amp  files    to  New server storage data  amp  files

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My favorite one to backup data is  ROBOCOPY  quot C  folder quot   quot C  new folder quot   mir   mir is for mirror  You can also use  mov to move files  It reproduce the exact same folder  It can delete overwrite files as needed  Works great for me  It s way faster than xcopy   copy  It s built in Windows as well  Source  http   technet microsoft com en-us library cc733145 aspx

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Just to be clear  when you use xcopy  s c  source d  target  put    around the c  source and d  target otherwise you get error   ie if there are spaces in the path ie if you have    C  Some Folder   txt    but not required if you have   C  SomeFolder   txt

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Look at rsync based Windows tool NASBackup  It will be a bonus if you are acquainted with rsync commands

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echo off  rem The   at the end of the destination file is to avoid File Directory Internal Question   rem You can do this for each especific file   Make sure you already have permissions to the path  xcopy  Y    Oldeserver storage data MyFile01 txt     New server storage data MyFile01 txt   pause  rem You can use  copy  instead of  xcopy  for this example

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If you want to copy file not using absolute path  relative path in other words  Don t forget to write backslash in the path AND NOT slash Example  copy children-folder file something   other-children-folder  PS  absolute path can be retrieved using these wildcards called  quot batch parameters quot   echo off echo    dp0 is  quot   dp0 quot  echo   0 is  quot  0 quot  echo    dpnx0 is  quot   dpnx0 quot  echo    f1 is  quot   f1 quot  echo    dp0   1 is  quot   dp0  1 quot   Check documentation here about copy  https   technet microsoft com en-us library bb490886 aspx And also here for batch parameters documentation  https   www microsoft com resources documentation windows xp all proddocs en-us percent mspx mfr true

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xcopy exe is definitely your friend here  It s built into Windows  so its cost is nothing   Just xcopy  s c  source d  target  You d probably want to tweak a few things  some of the options we also add include these     s e - recursive copy  including copying empty directories   v - add this to verify the copy against the original  slower  but for the paranoid   h - copy system and hidden files   k - copy read-only attributes along with files  otherwise  all files become read-write   x - if you care about permissions  you might want  o or  x   y - don t prompt before overwriting existing files   z - if you think the copy might fail and you want to restart it  use this  It places a marker on each file as it copies  so you can rerun the xcopy command to pick up from where it left off    If you think the xcopy might fail partway through  like when you are copying over a flaky network connection   or that you have to stop it and want to continue it later  you can use xcopy  s z c  source d  target   Hope this helps

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You can use esentutl  to copy  mainly big  files with a progress bar  esentutl  y  quot my file quot   d  quot another file quot   o  the progress bar looks like this

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To bypass the  specify a file name or directory name on the target  F   file  D   directory    prompt with xcopy  you can do the following     echo f   xcopy  f  y srcfile destfile   or for those of us just copying large substructures folders   use  i which specifies destination must be a directory if copying more than one file

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You may want to take a look at XCopy or RoboCopy which are pretty comprehensive solutions for nearly all file copy operations on Windows

[batch-file] Batch file to copy files from one folder to another folder

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