Automate Daily Folder Backups on Windows

Automate Daily Folder Backups on Windows

7zip Archive and Backup

Overview

In this simple tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how to archive and backup a certain folder daily.

after this tutorial you’ll have daily backup of a folder to different archive (.zip) in another folder.

Script

Available on Github: https://github.com/ET-CS/Archive-Script

Instructions

  1. Download & Install 7-Zip
  2. Create file: archive.wsf where you want with the script inside
  3. Set your parameters inside the script: path, destination & 7-zip exec folder if different. edit the filename if needed.
  4. Add script to windows scheduler

You now have a daily backup of a folder!