I'm looking for a script that will allow me to copy and "overwrite" all files with a date and time stamp BEFORE a certain date. The source files will NOT be deleted and all permissions will stay the same in destination directories. Copy does include subfolders as well. Any ideas?
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I think this is what your looking for.
Thanks, but I don't believe robocopy will "overwrite" files with the same date and time stamp. I will be copying identical files and need to overwrite those files. The issue however is that I only want to overwrite files with a date and time stamp before 4/16/2011. From what I understand, xcopy will actually overwrite the files.
Then in that case, MS-DOS xcopy command help and learn it. Its simple to do a batch code in txt doc and change too .bat and run it.
Why don't you just sort the files by time and only copy over/overwrite the ones over that are prior to the particular date and time?
Copy files changed on or after the specified date:
xcopy Source [Destination] [/d[:mm-dd-yyyy]]
Copy only files with date/time more recent than destination date/time:
xcopy Source [Destination] /D
/R overwite read only
/Y don't prompt for overwrite
This should work for you:
/COPYALL : Copy ALL file info (equivalent to /COPYCode:robocopy /COPYALL /IS /MINAGE:20110415ATSOU).
/MINAGE:n : MINimum file AGE - exclude files newer than n days/date.
(If n < 1900 then n = no of days, else n = YYYYMMDD date).
/IS : Include Same, overwrite files even if they are already the same.
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