Powershell 1 to many file copy
Hello,
I have a need to copy a large file to several hundred hosts to prep for the installation of said file. The file is a couple of GB. I was running the following:
ForEach($strServer in (GC .\Servers.txt)){
Copy-Item "\\SERVER1\SHARE\File.exe"
}
Which works fine, but is obviously doing the copies one at a time, which is taking ~4 minutes per file times several hundred servers.
Is there a quick way to get 5 to 10 copies happening at the same time, with verification that the file copied successfully?
Thank you for any information or direction.
I have a need to copy a large file to several hundred hosts to prep for the installation of said file. The file is a couple of GB. I was running the following:
ForEach($strServer in (GC .\Servers.txt)){
Copy-Item "\\SERVER1\SHARE\File.exe"
}
Which works fine, but is obviously doing the copies one at a time, which is taking ~4 minutes per file times several hundred servers.
Is there a quick way to get 5 to 10 copies happening at the same time, with verification that the file copied successfully?
Thank you for any information or direction.
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Thank you for the responses. I have been trying with Start-Job, but am having some trouble figuring out a way to control how many active threads are copying.
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This is what I ended up with. Seems to be working well so far. Thank you both for the input!
$intThreadCount = 5
Get-Job | Stop-Job
Get-Job | Remove-Job
Function Get-ActiveThreads{
$strHost = $Args[0]
If((@(Get-Job | ?{$_.State -eq "Running"}).Count) -lt $intThreadCount){
Start-Job -Name $strHost -Scriptblock {Copy-Item "\\SERVER1\SHARE\File.exe" -Destination "\\$($args[0])\C`$\Temp"} -ArgumentList $strHost
}
Else{
Start-Sleep 1
Get-ActiveThreads $strHost
}
}
ForEach($strHost in (GC .\Hosts.txt)){
Get-ActiveThreads $strHost
}
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347692.aspx
Or maybe you could user remote execution to have the machines copy it themselves:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverpowershell/thread/55c7c141-56e7-4bc3-914d-72c7550fa815