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Expanding a bit on what Andrew already said...

Did you try the code I suggested in post #2 in this thread?

If so, in what way did it fail?

Are you saying that you have some files that will...

Maybe something more like:
filename_time2=$(date --date='yesterday' +%Y-%m-%d)
cd /location/of/the/files/to/copy

for file in server.log-$filename_time2*
do if [ -f "$file" ]
then
cp...

DonCragun's code as posted would have worked. You modified a crucial part of that code, vis
for file in server.log-$filename_time2*
This expands the wildcard; the if statement then checks the first...