Do you have a backslash between the drive letter and your first directory (d:\basedir ...). In your example, you don't and when I try xcopy without that slash, I get "0 files copied). When I put the slash in, it works.

{C} > ls

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tmp

[.]        [..]       test.txt
               1 File(s)              0 bytes

{C} > xcopy "c:Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tmp\t
+est.txt" "c:Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tmp\foo
+\"
File not found - test.txt
0 File(s) copied

{C} > xcopy "c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tmp\
+test.txt" "c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tmp\f
+oo\"
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tmp\test.txt
1 File(s) copied

{C} > ls

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tmp

[.]        [..]       [foo]     test.txt
               1 File(s)              0 bytes

{C} > ls fool

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tmp
+\foo

[.]        [..]       test.txt
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
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Then using Perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $und_db = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\My Documents\
+\tmp\\test.txt";
my $out_dir = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\My Documents
+\\tmp\\foo";

system('xcopy', "\"$und_db\"", "\"$out_dir\\\"", '/r', '/y', '/i');
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And successful output:

{C} > test
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tmp\test.txt
1 File(s) copied

{C} > ls foo

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tmp
+\foo

[.]        [..]       test.txt
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
[download]

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