Copy-PWFolder with Versions?

Not in one command. I got it to work by building a list of documents and then using Copy-PWDocumentsToFolder with the -IncludeVersions switch. Downside is the destination folder must exist already for Copy-PWDocumentsToFolder to work. Also I found a bug in the -PopulatePath option for Get-PWDocumentsBySearch.

Anyway, this will backup files from one set of folders to another folder, maintaining the path of the original files and copying the versions.

# Important to NOT use the -GetVersionsToo switch!
# -PopulatePath doesn't populate the FolderPath property only the FullPath property
# can use -Slow here or use split path on FullPath in loop
$pwdList = Get-PWDocumentsBySearch -FolderPath 'Path\To\Source' -PopulatePath

# Copy-PWDocumentsToFolder only accepts one target path, and it must exist so we have
# to loop through each file to create its directory and calculate the target path
ForEach ($pwd in $pwdList) {
    $fldr     = Split-Path $pwd.FullPath -Parent
    $bkupFldr = Join-Path "Backups" $fldr
    # Create folder everytime
    New-PWFolder -FolderPath $bkupFldr > $null
    $pwd | Copy-PWDocumentsToFolder -TargetFolderPath $bkupFldr -IncludeVersions
}

    

Not in one command. I got it to work by building a list of documents and then using Copy-PWDocumentsToFolder with the -IncludeVersions switch. Downside is the destination folder must exist already for Copy-PWDocumentsToFolder to work. Also I found a bug in the -PopulatePath option for Get-PWDocumentsBySearch.

Anyway, this will backup files from one set of folders to another folder, maintaining the path of the original files and copying the versions.

# Important to NOT use the -GetVersionsToo switch!
# -PopulatePath doesn't populate the FolderPath property only the FullPath property
# can use -Slow here or use split path on FullPath in loop
$pwdList = Get-PWDocumentsBySearch -FolderPath 'Path\To\Source' -PopulatePath

# Copy-PWDocumentsToFolder only accepts one target path, and it must exist so we have
# to loop through each file to create its directory and calculate the target path
ForEach ($pwd in $pwdList) {
    $fldr     = Split-Path $pwd.FullPath -Parent
    $bkupFldr = Join-Path "Backups" $fldr
    # Create folder everytime
    New-PWFolder -FolderPath $bkupFldr > $null
    $pwd | Copy-PWDocumentsToFolder -TargetFolderPath $bkupFldr -IncludeVersions
}

    

Oh, might be a bit of speed up doing some clever tricks with the folder paths:

$fList = Split-Path $pwdList.FullPath -Parent | Sort -Unique
ForEach ($f in $fList) {
    New-PWFolder -FolderPath (Join-Path 'Backups' $f) > $null
}

create the folders first, then remove the New-PWFolder from the document copy loop