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xcopy.exe is definitely your friend here.
It's built into Windows, so its cost is nothing.

Just xcopy /s c:source d:target

You'd probably want to tweak a few things; some of the options we also add include these:

• 
  /s/e - recursive copy, including copying empty directories.


• 
  /v - add this to verify the copy against the original. slower, but for the paranoid.


• 
  /h - copy system and hidden files.


• 
  /k - copy read-only attributes along with files. otherwise, all files become read-write.


• 
  /x - if you care about permissions, you might want /o or /x.


• 
  /y - don't prompt before overwriting existing files.


• 
  /z - if you think the copy might fail and you want to restart it, use this. It places a marker on each file as it copies, so you can rerun the xcopy command to pick up from where it left off.

If you think the xcopy might fail partway through (like when you are copying over a flaky network connection), or that you have to stop it and want to continue it later, you can use xcopy /s/z c:source d:target.

Hope this helps.

Just to be clear, when you use xcopy /s c:source d:target, put "" around the c:source and d:target,otherwise you get error.

ie if there are spaces in the path ie if you have:

"C:Some Folder*.txt"

but not required if you have:

C:SomeFolder*.txt

My favorite one to backup data is:

ROBOCOPY "C:folder" "C:new_folder" /mir

/mir is for mirror. You can also use /mov to move files. It reproduce the exact same folder. It can delete/overwrite files as needed. Works great for me. It's faster than xcopy / copy. It's built in Windows as well.

Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145.aspx

You may want to take a look at XCopy or RoboCopy which are pretty comprehensive solutions for nearly all file copy operations on Windows.

To bypass the 'specify a file name or directory name on the target (F = file, D = directory)?' prompt with xcopy, you can do the following...

echo f | xcopy /f /y srcfile destfile

or for those of us just copying large substructures/folders:

use /i which specifies destination must be a directory if copying more than one file

if you want to copy file not using absolute path, relative path in other words:

don't forget to write antislash in the path AND NOT slash (^^)

example :

    copy children-folderfile.something .other-children-folder

PS: absolute path can be retrieved use these wildcards called "batch parameters"

    @echo off

    echo %%~dp0 is "%~dp0"

    echo %%0 is "%0"

    echo %%~dpnx0 is "%~dpnx0"

    echo %%~f1 is "%~f1"

    echo %%~dp0%%~1 is "%~dp0%~1"

check documentation here about copy : https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490886.aspx

and also here for batch parameters documentation:
https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/percent.mspx?mfr=true

Look at rsync based Windows tool NASBackup. It will be a bonus if you are acquainted with rsync commands.

@echo off



rem The * at the end of the destination file is to avoid File/Directory Internal Question.



rem You can do this for each especific file. (Make sure you already have permissions to the path)

xcopy /Y "\OldeserverstoragedataMyFile01.txt" "\New serverstoragedataMyFile01.txt"*

pause



rem You can use "copy" instead of "xcopy "for this example.