What do you use for a super simple scheduled backup to zip file utility.

[thecomputerguy]

I have a client who uses a specialized piece of software, the data isn't SQL, it isn't Access, it's like a very simply designed program with multiple DBF files in use depending on what module you are in.

It has a built-in backup utility but it doesn't allow for any customization, basically the only scheduling option is a check box that says "Backup once a day".

When it does backup all it does is copy all the data and ZIP it.

Does anyone have a tool I can use to ZIP this data on a schedule so I can incorporate that ZIP into our normal onsite/offsite backup solution?

 

[mikeroq]

You could use Cobian Backup

http://www.cobiansoft.com/cobianbackup.htm

 

[Larry Sabo]

SyncBack.

 

[glennd]

I have a client who uses a specialized piece of software, the data isn't SQL, it isn't Access, it's like a very simply designed program with multiple DBF files in use depending on what module you are in.

It has a built-in backup utility but it doesn't allow for any customization, basically the only scheduling option is a check box that says "Backup once a day".

When it does backup all it does is copy all the data and ZIP it.

Does anyone have a tool I can use to ZIP this data on a schedule so I can incorporate that ZIP into our normal onsite/offsite backup solution?

My first reaction was Zip and Task Scheduler but I use SyncBack quite a bit these days.

 

[fencepost]

I'm confused, if the application's automatic backup does a scheduled copy-and-zip, can't you then just grab that output zip file?

Or are you talking about grabbing a copy of the data independent of their backup process? Can you figure out how it's scheduling those backups (e.g. do they happen when nobody's in the software? Automatically when the last person signs out of it?) - whether they're launched from the software itself or from Task Scheduler, etc.?

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Cobian does ok. Don't expect moviesmi, but hard to beat free.

 

[mikeroq]

moviesmi

Typo?

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Yes. Miracles. Got to love autocorrect and Swype. Lol.

 

[NJW]

Does anyone have a tool I can use to ZIP this data on a schedule so I can incorporate that ZIP into our normal onsite/offsite backup solution?

A bash script and cron? Sorry.

I read on the Interwebs that Powershell can do it, in which case a scheduled task should be sufficient.