robocopy MAXAGE / MINAGE value with hours and minutes

windows powershell robocopy
Sun_Sparxz picture Sun_Sparxz · Jun 24, 2013 · Viewed 19.6k times · Source

I am trying to copy files from server to another server every hour as files being created. I was using Robocopy for copying file, and its very useful. But now I am really stuck with this. I need to copy files with MINAGE value of minutes, something like that.

if i ran robocopy after 2pm, i should able to copy only file which created before 2PM

Robocopy MAXAGE and MINAGE only accepts date not time.

Any suggestion

Answer

CrommCruach picture CrommCruach · Aug 16, 2019

Why u don't use the MIR function and run the job every 60 min via task scheduler?

Another way could be: /mot: Monitors source, and runs again in M minutes if changes are detected.

My last resort (non robocopy way): 

Copy-Item c:\src\*.* -filter (Get-ChildItem | Where{$_.CreationTime -ge (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-60)}) "C:\dest\"

You could that even run via task scheduler

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