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Specific date-based scan and copy of data

Contributors kevin-hoke

This solution is based on a customer who needs to copy data based on a specific date. Verify the following details:

Created a file in Y: and checked the scan command to list them.
 
c:\XCP>dir Y:\karthik_test
 Volume in drive Y is from
 Volume Serial Number is 80F1-E201
 
 Directory of Y:\karthik_test
 
05/26/2020  02:51 PM    <DIR>          .
05/26/2020  02:50 PM    <DIR>          ..
05/26/2020  02:51 PM             2,295 testfile.txt
               1 File(s)          2,295 bytes
               2 Dir(s)     658,747,392 bytes free
 
c:\XCP>
 
c:\XCP>xcp scan -match "strftime(ctime,'%Y-%m-%d')>'2020-05-01'" -fmt "'{},{}'.format(iso(mtime),name)" Y:\
XCP SMB 1.6; (c) 2020 NetApp, Inc.; Licensed to Calin Salagean [NetApp Inc] until Mon Dec 31 00:00:00 2029
 
It appears that you are not running XCP as Administrator. To avoid access issues please run XCP as Administrator.
 
2020-05-26_14:51:13.132465,testfile.txt
2020-05-26_14:51:00.074216,karthik_test
 
xcp scan -match strftime(ctime,'%Y-%m-%d')>'2020-05-01' -fmt '{},{}'.format(iso(mtime),name) Y:\ : PASSED
30,205 scanned, 2 matched, 0 errors
Total Time : 4s
STATUS : PASSED
 
Copy the files based on date (2020 YearMay month first date)  from Y:  to Z:
c:\XCP>xcp copy -match "strftime(ctime,'%Y-%m-%d')>'2020-05-01'" Y: Z:\dest_karthik
XCP SMB 1.6; (c) 2020 NetApp, Inc.; Licensed to Calin Salagean [NetApp Inc] until Mon Dec 31 00:00:00 2029
 
It appears that you are not running XCP as Administrator. To avoid access issues please run XCP as Administrator.
 
30,205 scanned, 3 matched, 0 copied, 0 errors, 5s
xcp copy -match strftime(ctime,'%Y-%m-%d')>'2020-05-01' Y: Z:\dest_karthik : PASSED
30,205 scanned, 3 matched, 2 copied, 0 errors
Total Time : 6s
STATUS : PASSED
 
c:\XCP>
 
Check the destination Z:
 
c:\XCP>dir Z:\dest_karthik\karthik_test
 Volume in drive Z is to
 Volume Serial Number is 80F1-E202
 
 Directory of Z:\dest_karthik\karthik_test
 
05/26/2020  02:51 PM    <DIR>          .
05/26/2020  02:50 PM    <DIR>          ..
05/26/2020  02:51 PM             2,295 testfile.txt
               1 File(s)          2,295 bytes
               2 Dir(s)     659,316,736 bytes free
 
c:\XCP>