Copying files and folders of only batch and vbs script files over network

Question

I am in the process migrating my servers from 2003 to 2008 and trying to write a powershell script that will copy all files that are vbs and bat from the 2003 server to the 2008 server and also keep the folder structure in tact as it is vital for the program to run.

Here is what i have so far. It works kinda. it will create the D:\\folder on the new servers but it will not copy anything over. It also creates the log.txt with all of the names of the vbs and bat files and there paths.

New-PSDrive -name source -PSProvider FileSystem -root "\\servername\d$\folder" |Out-Null

$targetdirectory = "d:\folder"
$sourcedirectory = "\\servername\d$\folder"

Get-ChildItem -Path $sourcedirectory -filter "*.bat","*.vbs" -Recurse| Out-File D:\log.txt
if ( -Not (Test-Path $targetdirectory)) {New-Item -path $targetdirectory -Type Directory | out-null } 
Copy-Item -Path $sourcedirectory -filter "*.bat","*.vbs" -Destination $targetdirectory -recurse -force 


remove-psdrive -name source

The part that is not working is this

Copy-Item -Path $sourcedirectory -filter "*.bat","*.vbs" -Destination $targetdirectory -recurse -force 

I just changed it to

Get-ChildItem -Path $sourcedirectory -Include "*.bat","*.vbs" -Recurse| Out-File D:\log.txt
if ( -Not (Test-Path $targetdirectory)) {New-Item -path $targetdirectory -Type Directory | out-null } 
Copy-Item -Path $sourcedirectory -Include *.bat, *.vbs -Destination $targetdirectory -recurse -force 

Answer 1

使用robocopy会更容易。

robocopy source dest *.vbs *.bat /s

Answer 2

Reading the comments from the other answer it just looks like you are having an issue filtering certain files for use with Copy-Item yes? In most cases you will see suggestions of using Get-ChildItem to isolate the files you want and piping to Copy-Item . You are almost already doing this.

$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $sourcedirectory -filter "*.bat","*.vbs" -Recurse
$files | Out-File D:\log.txt
$files | Copy-Item -Destination $targetdirectory -Force

$files contains which files you wanted to isolate (You could pipe it into Where-Object to get files of a certain size if need be.). Take files and output the results to an external txt file (Using Export-CSV can make for cleaner output of object FYI). Then we simply pipe it into Copy-Item . No need to try and file again.