Copy-item cmdlet copies folder with latest timestamp

[immutableneophyte86 Participant Topics: 1 Replies: 0 Points: 11Rank: Member]

Hi All,

 

I’m new to this forum & powershell, Question may sound silly

 

I’m writing script to copy folder to remote servers, I tried with copy-item cmdlet and I see folder are copied but with latest timestamp

i do not want the timestamp to be changed

 

Thank you

 

[Mike R. Participant Topics: 5 Replies: 253 Points: 1,007Rank: Community Hero]

There are 3 timestamps with files: Created, Modified and Accessed.  Windows updates Created and Accessed when you copy a file this is not really a PowerShell issue but PowerShell can “fix” it.

PowerShell

(Get-Item ".\yourfile.txt").CreationTime = $oldcreationdate (Get-Item ".\yourfile.txt").lastaccesstime = $oldaccessdate

1 2	(Get-Item ".\yourfile.txt").CreationTime = $oldcreationdate (Get-Item ".\yourfile.txt").lastaccesstime = $oldaccessdate

This brings up another point which is you shouldn’t really rely on these timestamps because they are very easily modified.

[TonyD Participant Topics: 10 Replies: 203 Points: 996Rank: Major Contributor]

Or you can use robocopy with /DCOPY:T

An example:

robocopy \\server\share\path \\server\share\path *.* /E /R:1 /W:1 /XJ /COPY:DAT /DCOPY:T /NP /LOG:C:\temp\robo.log /TEE

There are many switches to robocopy … these are in my opinion the basics.

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