How to copy a file from source to a destination and recreate the folder structure

Question

I have some files which needs to be copied through deployment process often to a destination. This is my folder folder structure:

SOURCE:

c:\
   folder1
          sub1
              subsub1
                     file1
                     file2

I need something where i can tell my "script" something like this

mycopy c:\folder1\sub1\subsub1\file1 h:\

That means that i dont want to

• check if folder structure exist
• provide on bot sides the complete structure for each file on destination side

I want to

• provide the full path and filename on source side
• create folder structure if not exist
• overwrite file if exist

How can i achieve this?

Answer 1

Ok it works like this:

You can use Robocopy for this task. Thanks you Rick716 for this direction. I am not marking it as answer cause it is only a direction not the solution.

Lets Assume that we have the following source folder structure:

N:\source\a1\b1\c1\d1\e1\f1

and we want to recreate the hole structure under n:\source within h:\destination. Then we have to use Robocopy in this way:

robocopy N:\source h:\destination /e

The option /e will create the folder structure even create empty folders. Additionally you can append the files which should be copied. For example

file.txt
*.jpg
*.bkp

etc. But these files will be even copied when they exist somewhere within the folder strcuture! For example you have the file n:\source\a1\file.txt and the file n:\source\a1\b1\c1\file.txt then both will be copied by using

robocopy N:\source h:\destination file.txt /e