Saturday 16 March 2013

Syncing folders - Folders

Ive been using Powershell for the last 6-12 months now just on and off. I find it great to play with being able to run things on the go and linking in with the different applications gives you a lot of freedom.

One of the earliest pieces of tried was to sync two folders. The reason I wanted to do this is because I keep a lot of our photos etc. in the cloud for safe keeping. But after reading of others having hackers get into their cloud storage and wipe it all I thought it would be a good idea to keep an onsite backup of the offsite backup.

So using either Google Drive, Drop box or Skydive where you can sync the files back to your computer is one thing I use and then I take a backup of that. Thats where I thought it would be fun to have a play with powershell to sync those folders to a backup directory.

So to start off with like any good developer I went and googled to see who has done this already and I found a good post by Steven Murawski which does it all for me.


Now to call this script I created a command file in notepad which included the below
powershell "{Location of script file}\Sync.ps1 {Location of Source} {Location of Sync Folder}"
PAUSE
Example:
powershell "C:\Scripts\Sync.ps1 C:\Pictures D:\PicturesBackup"
PAUSE
Below is the actual Powershell script from Steven Murawski

# Requires -Version 2

# Also depends on having the Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0 SDK or Runtime a

# --SDK--

# http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=89adbb1e-53ff-41b5-ba17-8e43a2e66254&displaylang=en

# --Runtime--

# http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=109DB36E-CDD0-4514-9FB5-B77D9CEA37F6&displaylang=en

#

#           



[CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)]

param (

    [Parameter(Position=1, Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)]

    [Alias('FullName', 'Path')]

    [string]$SourcePath

    , [Parameter(Position=2, Mandatory=$true)]

    [string]$DestinationPath

    , [Parameter(Position=3)]

    [string[]]$FileNameFilter

    , [Parameter(Position=4)]

    [string[]]$SubdirectoryNameFilter

)

<#

    .Synopsis

        Synchronizes to directory trees

    .Description

        Examines two directory structures (SourcePath and DestinationPath) and uses the Microsoft Sync Framework

        File System Provider to synchronize them.

    .Example

        An example of using the command

#>

begin

{

    [reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.Synchronization') | Out-Null

    [reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.Synchronization.Files') | Out-Null           



    function Get-FileSystemChange()

    {

        param ($path, $filter, $options)

        try

        {

            $provider = new-object Microsoft.Synchronization.Files.FileSyncProvider -ArgumentList $path, $filter, $options

            $provider.DetectChanges()

        }

        finally

        {

            if ($provider -ne $null)

            {

                $provider.Dispose()

            }

        }

    }           



    function Invoke-OneWayFileSync()

    {

        param ($SourcePath, $DestinationPath,

                    $Filter, $Options)

        $ApplyChangeJobs = @()

        $AppliedChangeJobs = @()

        try

        {

            # Scriptblocks to handle the events raised during synchronization, I believe used for reporting

            $AppliedChangeAction = {

                $argument = $event.SourceEventArgs

                switch ($argument.ChangeType)

                {

                    { $argument.ChangeType -eq [Microsoft.Synchronization.Files.ChangeType]::Create } {[string[]]$global:FileSyncReport.Created += $argument.NewFilePath}

                    { $argument.ChangeType -eq [Microsoft.Synchronization.Files.ChangeType]::Delete } {[string[]]$global:FileSyncReport.Deleted += $argument.OldFilePath}

                    { $argument.ChangeType -eq [Microsoft.Synchronization.Files.ChangeType]::Update } {[string[]]$global:FileSyncReport.Updated += $argument.OldFilePath}

                    { $argument.ChangeType -eq [Microsoft.Synchronization.Files.ChangeType]::Rename } {[string[]]$global:FileSyncReport.Renamed += $argument.OldFilePath}

                }

            }           



            $SkippedChangeAction = {

                [string[]]$global:FileSyncReport.Skipped += $event.SourceEventArgs.CurrentFilePath           



                if ($event.SourceEventArgs.Exception -ne $null)

                {

                    Write-Error '[' + "$($event.SourceEventArgs.Exception.Message)" +']'

                }

            }           



            # Create source provider and register change events for it           



            $sourceProvider = New-Object Microsoft.Synchronization.Files.FileSyncProvider -ArgumentList $SourcePath, $filter, $options

            $AppliedChangeJobs += Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $SourceProvider -EventName AppliedChange -Action $AppliedChangeAction

            $AppliedChangeJobs += Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $SourceProvider -EventName SkippedChange -Action $SkippedChangeAction           



            $ApplyChangeJobs += $SourceApplyChangeJob           



            # Create destination provider and register change events for it

            $destinationProvider = New-Object Microsoft.Synchronization.Files.FileSyncProvider -ArgumentList $DestinationPath, $filter, $options

            $AppliedChangeJobs += Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $destinationProvider -EventName AppliedChange -Action $AppliedChangeAction

            $AppliedChangeJobs += Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $destinationProvider -EventName SkippedChange -Action $SkippedChangeAction           



            $ApplyChangeJobs += $DestApplyChangeJob           



            # Use scriptblocks for the SyncCallbacks for conflicting items.

            $ItemConflictAction =   {

                $event.SourceEventArgs.SetResolutionAction([Microsoft.Synchronization.ConflictResolutionAction]::SourceWins)

                [string[]]$global:FileSyncReport.Conflicted += $event.SourceEventArgs.DestinationChange.ItemId

            }

            $ItemConstraintAction = {

                $event.SourceEventArgs.SetResolutionAction([Microsoft.Synchronization.ConstraintConflictResolutionAction]::SourceWins)

                [string[]]$global:FileSyncReport.Constrained += $event.SourceEventArgs.DestinationChange.ItemId

            }           



            #Configure the events for conflicts or constraints for the source and destination providers

            $destinationCallbacks = $destinationProvider.DestinationCallbacks

            $AppliedChangeJobs += Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $destinationCallbacks -EventName ItemConflicting -Action $ItemConflictAction

            $AppliedChangeJobs += Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $destinationCallbacks -EventName ItemConstraint -Action $ItemConstraintAction           



            $sourceCallbacks = $SourceProvider.DestinationCallbacks

            $AppliedChangeJobs += Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $sourceCallbacks -EventName ItemConflicting -Action $ItemConflictAction

            $AppliedChangeJobs += Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $sourceCallbacks -EventName ItemConstraint -Action $ItemConstraintAction           



            # Create the agent that will perform the file sync

            $agent = New-Object  Microsoft.Synchronization.SyncOrchestrator

            $agent.LocalProvider = $sourceProvider

            $agent.RemoteProvider = $destinationProvider           



            # Upload changes from the source to the destination.

            $agent.Direction = [Microsoft.Synchronization.SyncDirectionOrder]::Upload           



            Write-Host "Synchronizing changes from $($sourceProvider.RootDirectoryPath) to replica: $($destinationProvider.RootDirectoryPath)"

            $agent.Synchronize();

        }

        finally

        {

            # Release resources.

            if ($sourceProvider -ne $null) {$sourceProvider.Dispose()}

            if ($destinationProvider -ne $null) {$destinationProvider.Dispose()}

        }

    }           



    # Set options for the synchronization session. In this case, options specify

    # that the application will explicitly call FileSyncProvider.DetectChanges, and

    # that items should be moved to the Recycle Bin instead of being permanently deleted.           



    $options = [Microsoft.Synchronization.Files.FileSyncOptions]::ExplicitDetectChanges

    $options = $options -bor [Microsoft.Synchronization.Files.FileSyncOptions]::RecycleDeletedFiles

    $options = $options -bor [Microsoft.Synchronization.Files.FileSyncOptions]::RecyclePreviousFileOnUpdates

    $options = $options -bor [Microsoft.Synchronization.Files.FileSyncOptions]::RecycleConflictLoserFiles

}

process

{

    $filter = New-Object Microsoft.Synchronization.Files.FileSyncScopeFilter

    if ($FileNameFilter.count -gt 0)

    {

       $FileNameFilter | ForEach-Object { $filter.FileNameExcludes.Add($_) }

    }

    if ($SubdirectoryNameFilter.count -gt 0)

    {

       $SubdirectoryNameFilter | ForEach-Object { $filter.SubdirectoryExcludes.Add($_) }

    }           



    # Perform the detect changes operation on the two file locations

    Get-FileSystemChange $SourcePath $filter $options

    Get-FileSystemChange $DestinationPath $filter $options           



    # Reporting Object - using the global scope so that it can be updated by the event scriptblocks.

    $global:FileSyncReport = New-Object PSObject |

        Select-Object SourceStats, DestinationStats, Created, Deleted, Overwritten, Renamed, Skipped, Conflicted, Constrained           



    # We don't need to pass any filters here, since we are using the file detection that was previously completed.

    # this will only

    $global:FileSyncReport.SourceStats = Invoke-OneWayFileSync -SourcePath $SourcePath -DestinationPath $DestinationPath -Filter $null -Options $options

    #$global:FileSyncReport.DestinationStats = Invoke-OneWayFileSync -SourcePath $DestinationPath -DestinationPath $SourcePath -Filter $null -Options $options           



    # Write result to pipeline

    Write-Output $global:FileSyncReport

}


Now I admit there isnt a whole of development on my behalf on this one but this is how I learn things, I go and look at what someone else has done and pull it apart to see how I can use the different components. At a later date I will post some of my own Powershell scripts where I have used some of what I learnt from this first script to run multiple SQL scripts from files and output the results to csv, run multiple commands at once in parallel (great for SQL Server) and one I use to move downloaded content from a download directory to various folders based on the content.

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