How do I exclude a folder in compress-archive

Question

Can I somehow exclude a folder when I compress an archive like this?

$compress = Compress-Archive $DestinationPath $DestinationPath\ARCHIVE\archiv-$DateTime.zip -CompressionLevel Fastest

Now it always saves the whole folder structure of $destinationpath to the archive, but since the archive is in the same folder, it always gets zipped into a new archive, making the archive double in size every time I run the command.

Answer 1

Get all the files you want to compress, excluding the files and folders you don't want compressed and then pass that to the cmdlet

# target path
$path = "C:\temp"
# construct archive path
$DateTime = (Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMddHHmmss")
$destination = Join-Path $path "ARCHIVE\archive-$DateTime.zip"
# exclusion rules. Can use wild cards (*)
$exclude = @("_*.config","ARCHIVE","*.zip")
# get files to compress using exclusion filer
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Exclude $exclude
# compress
Compress-Archive -Path $files -DestinationPath $destination -CompressionLevel Fastest

Answer 2

you can use -update option of Compress-Archive. Select your subdirs with Get-ChildItem and Where

like it:

$YourDirToCompress="c:\temp"
$ZipFileResult="C:\temp10\result.zip"
$DirToExclude=@("test", "test1", "test2")

Get-ChildItem $YourDirToCompress -Directory  | 
           where { $_.Name -notin $DirToExclude} | 
              Compress-Archive -DestinationPath $ZipFileResult -Update