Originally Posted By: drakino
The challenge with this path for me is figuring out how to work with Shadow Copy to grab files Windows otherwise holds locks on.


Yeah... Good luck with that.

I don't know if it's available in Windows 7, but there is (was?) a Windows Backup provider for PowerShell in Windows 2012. That might be worth playing with. It's been a while since I actually used Windows in anger, so that could all be a bad acid trip, though.

In the end, though, for my Windows Server 2012 box, I got a copy of BackupAssist (which essentially provides a nice GUI over Windows Backup); it provides Daily/Weekly/etc. rotation capabilities which are a pain to implement yourself (even in PowerShell).
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