Exclude list in PowerShell Copy-Item does not appear to be working

Question

I have the following snippet of PowerShell script:

$source = \'d:\\t1\\*\'
$dest = \'d:\\t2\'
$exclude = @(\'*.pdb\',\'*.config\')
Copy-Item $source $dest -R         


        

Answer 1

$sourcePath="I:\MSSQL\Backup\Full"
$excludedFiles=@("MASTER", "DBA", "MODEL", "MSDB")
$sourceFiles=(ls $sourcePath -recurse -file) | where-object { $_.directory.name -notin $excludedFiles }

this is what i did, i needed to copy out a bunch of backup files to a separate location on the network for client pickup. we didn't want them to have the above system DB backups.