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Hi All,

I have these three commands that i am trying to script:

.\emcopy64.exe \\sreadvfile03\f$ \\sreadvfile02\g$ /o /s /de /secforce /purge /cm md5 /r:1 /w:1 /c /log:sreadvfile03_fdrive_$(Get-Date -format "dd-MMM-yyyy_HH:mm").txt


.\emcopy64.exe \\sreadvfile03\e$ \\sreadvfile02\f$ /o /s /de /secforce /purge /cm md5 /r:1 /w:1 /c /log:sreadvfile03_edrive_$(Get-Date -format "dd-MMM-yyyy_HH:mm").txt


.\emcopy64.exe \\sreadvfile03\z$ \\sreadvfile02\h$ /o /s /de /secforce /purge /cm md5 /r:1 /w:1 /c /log:sreadvfile03_zdrive_$(Get-Date -format "dd-MMM-yyyy_HH:mm").txt

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so far my solution is:

$copy=@(@{source="\sreadvfile03\f$";destination="\\sreadvfile02\g$"}, @{source="\\sreadvfile03\e$";destination="\\sreadvfile02\f$"},@{source="\sreadvfile03\f$";destination="\\sreadvfile02\g$"}) 


foreach ($m in $copy){

{
	
.\emcopy64.exe $($m.source) $($m.destination) /o /s /de /secforce /purge /cm md5 /r:1 /w:1 /c /log:$($m.source)_fdrive_$(Get-Date -format "dd-MMM-yyyy_HH:mm").txt

}

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will the above work?

Also how do i select the correct drive in $($m.source)_fdrive_$

also any other ways of doing as this as i am trying to master powershell?

Kelly Garcia

ASKER

I cant seem to access the $m, ive tried

$copy=@(@{source="\\sreadvfile03\f$";destination="\\sreadvfile02\g$"}, @{source="\\sreadvfile03\e$";destination="\\sreadvfile02\f$"},@{source="\sreadvfile03\f$";destination="\\sreadvfile02\g$"}) 


foreach ($m in $copy){



Write-host "Copying $copy[$m].source to $copy[$m].destination"
	



}

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aikimark

You have other concerns, such as the log name. Try this

$copy=@(("f","g"),("e","f"),("z","h"))
$copy | %{".\emcopy64.exe \\sreadvfile03\$($_[0])$ \\sreadvfile02\$($_[1])$  /o /s /de /secforce /purge /cm md5 /r:1 /w:1 /c /log:sreadvfile03_$($_[0])drive_$(Get-Date -format "dd-MMM-yyyy_HH:mm").txt"}

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oBdA

You can't have a ":" as part of the log file name (as it happens in your date formatting). And the date format should by y-M-d, so that the logs will be automatically sorted properly when sorted by name.
The easiest way to have data like that in a script is to put it in a here-string as csv.

$DateFormat = 'yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm'
$Copy = @'
"Source",				"Destination"
"\\sreadvfile03\f$",	"\\sreadvfile02\g$"
"\\sreadvfile03\e$",	"\\sreadvfile02\f$"
"\\sreadvfile03\z$",	"\\sreadvfile02\h$"
'@ | ConvertFrom-Csv

$Copy | ForEach-Object {
	$Server, $Drive = $_.Source.Split('\', [StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries)
	$LogFile = "$($Server)_$($Drive[0])drive_$(Get-Date -Format $DateFormat).log"
	& .\emcopy64.exe $_.Source $_.Destination /o /s /de /secforce /purge /cm md5 /r:1 /w:1 /c /log:$LogFile
}

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Kelly Garcia

ASKER

Fantastic Thank you

Kelly Garcia

ASKER

I've put the script into a workflow for parallel processing:

workflow copyfiles {

$copy=@(@{source="\\sreadvfile01\c$\testemcopy";destination="\\W10000601\C$\testemcopy_1"}, @{source="\\sreadvfile02\c$\testemcopy";destination="\\W10000601\C$\testemcopy_1"},@{source="\\sreadvfile03\c$\testemcopy";destination="\\W10000601\C$\testemcopy_1"}) 

ForEach -Parallel ($m in $copy) {

$DateFormat = 'yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm'

write-host  "Copying $($m['source']) to $($m['destination'])"

<#.\emcopy64.exe $($m['source']) $($m['destination']) /o /s /de /secforce /purge /cm md5 /r:1 /w:1 /c /log:$($m['source'])_$($DateFormat).txt #>


}

}

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however I get this error:

At line:5 char:1
+ write-host "Copying $($m['source']) to $($m['destination'])"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cannot call the 'Write-Host' command. Other commands from this module have been packaged as workflow activities, but
this command was specifically excluded. This is likely because the command requires an interactive Windows PowerShell
session, or has behavior not suited for workflows. To run this command anyway, place it within an inline-script
(InlineScript { Write-Host }) where it will be invoked in isolation.
+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParseException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandActivityExcluded

Kelly Garcia

ASKER

Also I get this error:

Cannot find the '.\emcopy64.exe' command. If this command is defined as a workflow, ensure it is defined before the
workflow that calls it. If it is a command intended to run directly within Windows PowerShell (or is not available on
this system), place it in an InlineScript: 'InlineScript { .\emcopy64.exe }'
    + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [], ParseException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFound

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