{"id":316,"date":"2009-06-10T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainlitter.itgroove.net\/2009\/06\/10\/elegant-wss-site-collection-backup-script-2\/"},"modified":"2009-06-10T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T23:50:00","slug":"elegant-wss-site-collection-backup-script-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2009\/06\/10\/elegant-wss-site-collection-backup-script-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elegant WSS Site collection backup script"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nice to be the boss. I gave my man Dougie my requirements and the skeleton for a script and he produced the rest.<\/p>\n

Note: update, November 15, 2009, added support for Windows Server 2008 (now.exe replaced with date\/t) for backing up the WID<\/p>\n

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Download the (updated) script here<\/a><\/font>
NOTE<\/u>: you use this at your own risk. I’m just being a nice guy here.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n

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It provides an automated mechanism (that can be scheduled via your task scheduler) for WSS Site Collection Backups (multiple sites, via CSV selection list), and saves them for 7 days and then overwrites the oldest (each backup is labelled as the day it was run on).<\/p>\n

Note that it assumes it is running on Windows Server 2003 as it also backs up the metabase.\u00a0 On Windows Server 2008, you will want to exclude the iisbackup\/metabase part as 2008 handles this differently now.<\/p>\n

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How to use it:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Simply copy the script to your server, fill out the few required variables and modify the CSV file to suit. CSV format is as following:<\/p>\n

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