I am trying to use Copy-Item
from remote machine to another remote machine with the command:
Copy-Item -Path "\\machine1\abc\123\log 1.zip" -Destination "\\machine2\\c$\Logs\"
I am constantly getting Error "Cannot find Path "\\machine1\abc\123\log 1.zip
"
I can access that path and copy manually from there.
I am opening PowerCLI as administrator and running this script... I am absolutely stuck here and not sure how to resolve it.
This seems to work as is on PowerShell v3. I don't have v2 handy to test with, but there are two options that I'm aware of, which ought to work. First, you could map PSDrives:
New-PSDrive -Name source -PSProvider FileSystem -Root \\machine1\abc\123 | Out-Null
New-PSDrive -Name target -PSProvider FileSystem -Root \\machine2\c$\Logs | Out-Null
Copy-Item -Path source:\log_1.zip -Destination target:
Remove-PSDrive source
Remove-PSDrive target
If this is something you're going to do a lot, you could even wrap this in a function:
Function Copy-ItemUNC($SourcePath, $TargetPath, $FileName)
{
New-PSDrive -Name source -PSProvider FileSystem -Root $SourcePath | Out-Null
New-PSDrive -Name target -PSProvider FileSystem -Root $TargetPath | Out-Null
Copy-Item -Path source:\$FileName -Destination target:
Remove-PSDrive source
Remove-PSDrive target
}
Alternately, you can explicitly specify the provider with each path:
Copy-Item -Path "Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::\\machine1\abc\123\log 1.zip" -Destination "Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::\\machine2\\c$\Logs\"