Automating Site Collection Backups
Here is a useful batch file for automating site collection level backups. It creates a unique timestamp string and uses it in the name of the backup.
You can easily create a scheduled task to run this every week or every night. You will still need to go in and clean up old backups.
The STSADM -o backup command can be tweaked to run full farm backups as well.
Copy and paste this into a text file and rename with *.bat extension (remove "pause" command when scheduling as a task)
SET STSADM="C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\bin\stsadm.exe"@echo off for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /T') do set year=%%cfor /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /T') do set month=%%afor /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /T') do set day=%%bSET TODAY=%year%%month%%day% for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=.: " %%i in ("%time%") do set timestr=%%i%%j%%k%%l SET FULLSTR=%TODAY%%TIMESTR% SET LOC="D:\moss_backup\sitename_%FULLSTR%.bak" @echo.@echo Backup file will be named: %LOC%@echo.@echo on %STSADM% -o backup -url https://siteurl -filename %LOC% pause |