{"id":7341,"date":"2015-03-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/03\/11\/powertip-use-powershell-to-copy-source-to-multiple-destinations\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:19","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-copy-source-to-multiple-destinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-copy-source-to-multiple-destinations\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Copy Source to Multiple Destinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to copy a source directory to multiple destinations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to make multiple backup copies of a source directory without wasting a <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;lot of time mousing around?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Copying a single source directory to multiple destinations can be a single line command, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">&quot;c:\\fso1&quot;,&quot;c:\\fso2&quot;,&quot;c:\\fso3&quot; | % {Copy-Item c:\\fso -Recurse -Destination $_}<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;<b>%<\/b>&nbsp;symbol is an alias for the&nbsp;<b>Foreach-Object<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to copy a source directory to multiple destinations. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to make multiple backup copies of a source directory without wasting a &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;lot of time mousing around? &nbsp;Copying a single source directory to multiple destinations can be a single line command, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[567,356,3,12,45],"class_list":["post-7341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-files-and-folders","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-storage","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to copy a source directory to multiple destinations. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to make multiple backup copies of a source directory without wasting a &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;lot of time mousing around? &nbsp;Copying a single source directory to multiple destinations can be a single line command, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}