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Jake
Asked: 2012-05-10 07:25:01 +0800 CST

Copy-Item not working as expected

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I cant figure out what I am doing wrong with this command and would like another set of eyes to point it out.

I want to copy the directory structure but not the files the structure contains. 

Copy-Item -recurse -exclude *.* -path \\server1\z$\backups\  -destination \\server2\z$\ -Verbose

The command runs but it copys files despite telling it not to copy files. How do i copy the directory tree and not the files?

windows-server-2003 powershell

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try this.

    copy-item -path "\\server1\z$\backups\" -Destination "\\server2\z$\" -Filter {$_.PSIsContainer -eq $True} -recurse

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  2. robocopy /e /XF *.*

    Sorry, that didn't really answer your question. Maybe try something like this:

    ForEach($folder in Get-ChildItem -Recurse \\server1\z$\backups\ | ? { $_.PSIsContainer }) { Copy-Item -Path $folder -Destination \\server2\z$\$folder }

    That above PS script probably needs some tweaking -- I did not really test it. But the concept is there.

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  3. This is what I came up with. You can take out the "mkdir" command to test before running it.

    $src =  "c:\temp"
$dest = "c:\test"

$dirs = dir -Recurse $src | Where {$_.psIsContainer -eq $true}
foreach( $name in $dirs ) {
    $tmp = $name.fullname.Replace($name.Root,$dest + "\")
    $tmp
    mkdir $tmp
}
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