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copy files with time-stamp specific.

I need to copy some log files from a log folder daily. The time-stamp of the log files is from two days ago to the time of the copy.

Please advise how to do it.

DOS script is just fine.

Thanks.

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Bill Prew

Can you be a little more specific.

Do you want to copy all the files in the folder each day?

Where are the files going to?

Do you only want to copy a certain date or age of files?

How does the time stamp factor in, and is that inside the data of the file, or in the file name?

Etc...

~bp

footech

I think you mean anything newer than 2 days ago, in which case you would just need to change the "-lt" in Subsun's script to "-gt". If you want to include any files created on that day (for example if the script is run on 9/12 at 11 a.m. and you want to include anything created on 9/10 or newer and not just newer than 9/10 11 a.m.), then we could modify it to be

GCI C:\logs | ?{$_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).adddays(-2).Date} | Copy-Item -Destination C:\Logcopy

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Last question would be are you interested in the LastWriteTime or the CreationTime?

Veegertx

You said Dos ok. Use the Retry and wait in case they are open

@echo off
Robocopy "D:\Logs" "E:\Logs" /v /mir /R:2 /W:30
pause
mkdir c:\delete
robocopy "E:\Logs" c:\Delete /e /MOVE /MINAGE:3 /R:2 /W:30
pause
rmdir c:\delete /s /q

Michael Dyer

Veegertx's solution looks good. Robocopy, or "Robust File Copy", is a command-line directory replication command. It has been available as part of the Windows Resource Kit starting with Windows NT 4.0, and was first introduced as a standard feature in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

If you need a copy for Server 2003, you can get it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en