Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 7:58 pm
I've never done scripting in a windows environment, I was a mainframe guy. I could do this in my sleep on an AS/400, and often did. I will try to make these requirements as complete as I always wished my users had done.
Here's what I want to do:
Every day at 3pm I want to copy the standard "Shared Pictures" folder on Drive D to a hard drive called Drive Z. It is on the same PC running Windows Home Server 2011. Backup can take as long as it needs (if it isn't complete in 2 hours a warning would be nice but not required.)
I want it to create a new folder on the Z drive every day called "Backup Photos - CCYYMMDD." Obviously, that would be the date of the backup.
I want it to keep 7 daily backup folders, deleting the oldest as appropriate.
Once a week, it creates a new folder called "Weekly save - CCYYMMDD" and makes a backup in that folder.
System will retain 4 weekly saves, deleting the oldest as appropriate.
Every 4 weeks, it creates a "Monthly save - CCYYMMDD," creating a backup in that folder.
System will retain 4 monthly saves, deleting the oldest as appropriate.
There will be 1 yearly save every 12 months, with no automatic deletion process.
- each backup will be a full backup. No incremental changes.
- some kind of warning would be nice if a backup fails. Text message, email, pop-up message across all systems on LAN, whatever.
- If network warnings are easy then sending me a message that backup was successful would be ok. But not across all systems. Just Steve-PC.
- Then someone has to teach me how to plug a script into windows because I have no idea. Probably something to do with scheduling. Again, I wasn't a Windows developer.
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My server is already do incremental backups of itself, but I need to launch the restore process to see if it is actually working. It's probably fine, but I can't just look at it and know. This way I will actually be able to see the folders and files and compare folder sizes and get a good idea it is working.
Here's what I want to do:
Every day at 3pm I want to copy the standard "Shared Pictures" folder on Drive D to a hard drive called Drive Z. It is on the same PC running Windows Home Server 2011. Backup can take as long as it needs (if it isn't complete in 2 hours a warning would be nice but not required.)
I want it to create a new folder on the Z drive every day called "Backup Photos - CCYYMMDD." Obviously, that would be the date of the backup.
I want it to keep 7 daily backup folders, deleting the oldest as appropriate.
Once a week, it creates a new folder called "Weekly save - CCYYMMDD" and makes a backup in that folder.
System will retain 4 weekly saves, deleting the oldest as appropriate.
Every 4 weeks, it creates a "Monthly save - CCYYMMDD," creating a backup in that folder.
System will retain 4 monthly saves, deleting the oldest as appropriate.
There will be 1 yearly save every 12 months, with no automatic deletion process.
- each backup will be a full backup. No incremental changes.
- some kind of warning would be nice if a backup fails. Text message, email, pop-up message across all systems on LAN, whatever.
- If network warnings are easy then sending me a message that backup was successful would be ok. But not across all systems. Just Steve-PC.
- Then someone has to teach me how to plug a script into windows because I have no idea. Probably something to do with scheduling. Again, I wasn't a Windows developer.
++++++++++++++++++++
My server is already do incremental backups of itself, but I need to launch the restore process to see if it is actually working. It's probably fine, but I can't just look at it and know. This way I will actually be able to see the folders and files and compare folder sizes and get a good idea it is working.