copy files from one drive to another

[chinnareddy]

hai ,
i have a sever in that thare are Z and E drives are there.i have .bak files in Z drive.i need to copy all .bak files into E drive by using c#.net .

plz help me........

thanks in advance....

regards
chinnareddy

[scru]

These Classes in the System.IO Namespace will help:

Directory
File

Specifically, you need:

Directory.GetFiles("Z:\\", "*.bak");

Which will return a string[] array. Simply loop through this array and call File.Copy

[chinnareddy]

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[chinnareddy]

hai scru,

string[] files= Directory.GetFiles("Z:\\", "*.bak");

          foreach (string file in files)
          {
              File.Copy(file, @"E:\",true);
          }

but it giving the error like this Could not find a part of the path 'E:\'.

thanks in advance

chinna

[LizR]

running as a service?

[chinnareddy]

no i am not running service.
just i write the code in button_click
but i want to copy the files in the server.
do u have any idea plz forward me..
thanks

[LizR]

I believe its trying to tell you the filename is missing. Which it is, you just give "E:\" there is no filename.

Just checked, yep, thats exactly it.

[scru]

Yeh what LizR said, only let me break it down more:

The File.Copy method doesn't want a destination directory, it wants a destination file. So you have to do this in the loop:

string destinationFile = Path.GetFileName(file);
File.Copy(file, "E:\\" + destinationFile, true);

Hope this helps.