Need xcopy script help

[cvaughn8086]

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?

 

[mrdemon]

Robocopy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think this is what your looking for.

 

[cvaughn8086]

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.

 

[mrdemon]

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.

 

[FliGi7]

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?

 

[SIW2]

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

 

[FliGi7]

This should work for you:

robocopy /COPYALL /IS /MINAGE:20110415

/COPYALL : Copy ALL file info (equivalent to /COPYATSOU).
/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.

 

[FliGi7]

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

The first is only checking dates and times of the source file and it sounds like he want to replace based on destination date/time.

The second only checks the source date/time against the destination date/time and not a specified date/time, should this be different.