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 & files to \New server\storage\data & files.
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.
My favorite one to backup data is:
ROBOCOPY "C:\folder" "C:\new_folder" /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
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
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 "batch parameters"
@echo off
echo %%~dp0 is "%~dp0"
echo %%0 is "%0"
echo %%~dpnx0 is "%~dpnx0"
echo %%~f1 is "%~f1"
echo %%~dp0%%~1 is "%~dp0%~1"
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
@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.
Look at rsync based Windows tool NASBackup. It will be a bonus if you are acquainted with rsync commands.
