Ideas to monitor file copying progress for automated script

• podmate

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  October 16, 2014 at 1:28 pm

  #297523

  I have a PS script that runs on a schedule.

  This process is automated and the app that calls the PS script is a service that does not have admin privileges.

  This script looks in a certain folder for any files in that folder.

  If files are found, do *magic*, move files to SFTP folder, when all files have fully copied to SFTP folder copy over a control file to start the SFTP process.

  I can have 0-20 files with size ranges from a few KB to ~5GB.

  Due to internal bandwidth constraints, I want to move one file at a time to the SFTP folder.

  Any suggestions on best ways in PS to monitor if a file is still uploading or has finished uploading to a folder?

  I tried BITS Transfer module, but it appears that the user has to be logged in interactively or possibly as a privileged account . Unless I am totally mistaken, this won't work for what I was asked to build.

  I thought about writing a function (or while loop) to check if a given file is locked/unlocked or writing another set of code to check the file size every x seconds to see if the size has changed.

  Any other suggestions? Hoping MS has a CMDLET for this, but have not found it yet.

  Oh yeah, I am stuck with PS version 2.

• Gary Varga

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  October 20, 2014 at 4:25 am

  #1753447

  Have you tried setting the authentication mode or supplying credentials? If you don't supply credentials then it defaults to the current user.

  Details can be found here.

  Gaz

  -- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!