Incremental Backup Script Sample Analysis

Incremental backup scripts continue to appear, though the modern software market offers a vast amount of solutions for the backup & restore tasks. One can find all the tools she might need either at work or at home. Though the current attitude showed that many users still tend to stick to free software and various backup vbscripts in particular. Let’s explore the reasons behind this situation.

Reasons to Use Incremental Restore Scripts

One of the reasons is, of course, you do not have to pay money for these kinds of solutions. Almost every script is available online, where it can even be somehow maintained. If you are lucky enough, you can even get support directly from the incremental backup developer, though the resolving of your problem can’t be guaranteed.

The people who are into software developing themselves can create their personal backup vbscripts just out of curiosity. While being highly educative and, generally, fun, this can eat lots of your time with the final result being unclear.

Handy Backup vs Incremental Backup Script

As we have seen the incremental restore script users appear somewhat conservative when it comes to proprietary software. By doing this they deprive themselves of some really handy and remarkable features presented by the non-free solutions.

The situation NEEDS to be changed, and Handy Backup is accepting the challenge. Right now we are going to show you that our product easily does everything the popular scripts do, but our solutions are far smoother. We do so by letting you download an incremental backup script (a popular one!) as well as the brand new shiny Handy Backup. By this you can compare both approaches and choose the only one, which suits you best.

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So, let’s have a look at Incremental Managed Backup Script which is an incremental backup script dealing with HoboCopy.

The source code is right here: download Incremental Backup Script

Note: this script was not tested by Novosoft. Please understand the risks as you decide to use it.

What the script does: the thing allows files in use to be copied and then it uses 7zip to compress the file and stores it in an archive based on the days date. A limitation of HoboCopy is that the script won’t parase folders with spaces in them.

Script author: Gavan Walker, IT Manager at Chase Edwards.

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