如何创建一个脚本，允许使用路径列表作为在 PowerShell in.bat 脚本中复制文件的参考

Question

I'm looking for a way to automate archiving where after I plug my two external drives I can copy all my resources. The problem is that I have different file structures on my laptop and on both external drives so I need to select specific folders to be copied. It means that I can't select one root folder and copy it straightforward. I tried to find a way to declare more than one path in the cp command and in the copy command, without success. An example path:

/my_programming_stuff

              /folder1
              /folder2
              /folder3
              /folder4

I want to select only the first 3 folders to copy them into external drive1 and external drive 2 . The idea is to create a .bat file that will copy everything at once ( in the best case scenario it will be copied simultaneously on both external drives, so it will be much faster). Another problem is that there needs to be a bypass the ntfs long path limitations (max. 260 characters). Flags that I want to use:

• Copy the files and directories and all of their attributes, including ownerships and permissions.
• Recursively copy directories and their contents.
• When copying files from one directory to another, only copy files that either doesn't exist or are newer than the existing corresponding files, in the destination directory.
• data verification (so it's certain that the copy was verified)
• progression bar with time eta

Until now I was using Total Commander to do this but every day I need to pick only a few folders to be copied which takes time and is inefficient.

I have experience with Bash and PowerShell but I am not sure how to handle this topic.

Answer 1

Create a static batch file with robocopy commands. I think /copyall is the only switch you need to specify for all this. Other defaults should satisfy requirements.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy

Answer 2

I think your time will be better spent learning how to use either FastCopy or FreeFileSynce . I used FreeFileSync some years ago but got disgusted with the it's constantly changing format of its xml file used for starting a backup, so I switched to FastCopy. But it looks like FreeFileSync may be getting their act together and I aim to do some experiments over the summer to see if I want to switch back to it.

Both can handle the long filename format issues, both can be executed by a batch file, both seem to have a lot of quality, but FreeFileSync has more features - and more bloated because of the features. But speed wise, I think FastCopy is probably one of the better products out there and very streamline in use and design.