Script to copy a file from one server to another

Asked 4 years, 10 months ago. Active 16 days ago. Viewed 25k times. Improve this question. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Suhas Srivats Subburathinam Suhas Srivats Subburathinam 1 1 gold badge 4 4 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. To use the administrative share you use a dollar symbol. For future reference you can copy and paste from the cmd window. A lot easier to copy and paste the text from the cmd window then it is to upload screen shot for everyone to see.

Time is money. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Sample script. Try this. Give a try. MoveItemCommand Muhammad Mehdi. Do you have write permissions to the destination server location? Yes I have as I can create, copy and delete folder and files Muhammad Mehdi.

Can you change the destination location to any local path and test once. I just checked the files has moved to new location but the error still there if I rerun script Muhammad Mehdi. Hello, The error clearly states that the file exists , delete the file at destination and re-run your script and it shud execute fine. Move-Item -Force try -Force with your command it would over-write the destination file..

Regards, Venu. Hi I was referring to this page for moving files from one server to another. Thanks, Gaurav. Thursday, June 15, PM. Tim Tim 4 4 gold badges 5 5 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges.

Is it going to a backup folder, or a similar location on the other serve, ie mirroring the file or backing it up. Does it matter if the one on the other server is newer? Are the computers on the same network in the same domain?

Are there firewalls between them? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. RainyRat RainyRat 3, 1 1 gold badge 22 22 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. No need to map a drive either. Aha, and "use linux" : — kolypto. Adam Bertram Adam Bertram 1 1 gold badge 4 4 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Community Bot 1. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

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