BACKUP YOUR FILES WITH SIMPLE POWERSHELL FUNCTION

 

BACKUP YOUR FILES WITH SIMPLE POWERSHELL FUNCTION

Following PowerShell will help you to create backup of any desired folder and its content. When running this simple PowerShell function, you will need to provide source and destination variables as shown below.

 

  # Add VARS

 $BackSource = "C:\Users\12024\OneDrive - wiretecpro\Documents\S_Root\"

 $DestSource = "C:\Users\12024\OneDrive - wiretecpro\Documents\Backup\"

 

function Function-Backup{         [CmdletBinding()]     param(     [Parameter(Position=0,mandatory=$true)]     [string] $BackSource,     [string] $DestSource     )   Try{   # Add VARS , start with backup Folder Name $folderName = 'MyBackup\'   # Consantrate Vars $now = (get-Date -format 'dd-MMM-yyyy-HH-mm-ss-tt') $BackupFolder  = $folderName+$now $DestSourceFol =  $DestSource+$BackupFolder   # Check DESTINATION Folder, create one if does not exist if(!(Test-Path  $DestSourceFol)){   New-Item $DestSourceFol -ItemType Directory | Out-Null   }   # Check SOURCE Folder, Stop script if source folder path is not valid if(!(Test-Path $BackSource)){ Write-Warning 'CANNOT Locate Source' Write-Warning 'Script will stop' Start-Sleep -Seconds 3 break;   }   # Collect all files $files = (Get-ChildItem $BackSource -recurse) Write-host 'Backup in progress' -ForegroundColor Green   # Start Item by Item Copy foreach ($file in $files) {     if ($file.LastWriteTime -lt ($(Get-Date).AddDays(-1)))     {        Copy-Item $file.FullName -Destination $DestSourceFol -Recurse       } }   # Complete Backup Write-Host "Completed backup"   }Catch{   $errormessage = $($PSItem.ToString())   Write-Warning 'Error has occoured'   Write-host 'Problem FOUND:' $errormessage -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor White       }   }

 

  # Add VARS

 $BackSource = "C:\Users\12024\OneDrive - wiretecpro\Documents\S_Root\"

 $DestSource = "C:\Users\12024\OneDrive - wiretecpro\Documents\Backup\"

 

 # Run the function

 Function-Backup -BackSource $BackSource -DestSource $DestSource 

 

 

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