Long term backup setup on windows.

[birdman3131]

So you like GSA's backup but want more permeance out of your backups? Well you have come to the right tutorial.

Step 1: Have a location to store your backups. Preferably on a different machine but if nothing else on a different drive. I will go over a seperate drive in this tutorial.

As a note you can save a serious number of backups with the compression GSA uses. If you want to go further you could mess with compression settings and take it to about half the size GSA does but I never felt the need.

Same machine, separate drive

Assuming drives C: for GSA and K: for the backups.
On drive K: create a folder for the backups. I am doing K:\ArkBackups
Hit start and type Task scheduler.

Press Create Basic Task

Give it a name.

Set how often you want it to run. I do daily.

Set the time to a slow time. This should not be enough load to matter to the machine but play it save and set it to 4am or something.

Choose Start a program.

In the field put
xcopy
In the arguments put
c:\GameServerApp\nas\backup K:\ArkBackups /d /s