Snapcontrol

Short description

Drive Snapshot backup controller.
A backup wrapper program for Windows boxes.

Features:

• Starts a backup via Windows Scheduler using Drive Snapshot by Tom Ehlert
• Can ask the user for permission to start a backup
• Can do a shutdown after backup
• Different backup targets (local DRIVE, SMB, FTP)
• Encryption support (via Drive Snapshot)
• Verifies the backup (optional)
• New full backup every month
• Daily differential backup
• Writes detailed logfile and history log
• Sends reports via email (using cmail.exe)

Requirements

You will need the tool Drive Snapshot by Tom Ehlert Software.

Download here: snapshot.exe
64-bit version: snapshot64.exe

You can test Drive snapshot for a limited time. Please support this great tool and consider to buy a license.

You will also need CMail for sending emails.
Get it from here: https://www.inveigle.net/cmail/download

Installation

• Download the latest release and unzip the files
• Open "snapcontrol.ini" with the editor of your choice and set the following variables:
  • BinPath
  • TargetPath
  • TargetUser
  • TargetPassword
  • Disks2Dump
• Copy the Drive Snapshot binary to "BinPath"
• Optional step: set "InstallTo" to your desired location
• Open a dos box and execute:

snapcontrol.exe /I

( Snapcontrol copies the config file and itself to the location of the "InstallTo" variable. )

That's all. Snapcontrol will be called by the Windows scheduler. See "snapcontrol.ini" for detailed comments on the features.

USAGE

C:\>snapcontrol.exe /?
usage: snapcontrol.exe </I | /U | /D | /V>
    /I = install program and config
    /U = update scheduler job
    /D = dry run
    /V = show version

Everytime you change the values in "BackupSched" or "BackupStart" you will have to call snapcontrol.exe with the /U switch.