PowerShell - Compress-Archive

Published: 09 September 2020
on channel: Mr Automation

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(how to backup files with powershell using compress-archive)

*compress-archive
*how to backup files with powershell

In this video i show you how you can use compress-archive to create a nice powershell backup script/function

Code :
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string] $folder
#[Parameter(Mandatory)] [string] $zipfile
)
#we need to do some magic to get the date for instance.

$date = get-date -f "yyyy-MM-dd__hh-mm-ss"
$zipfile = $folder + "-$date.zip"

Compress-Archive -Path $folder -DestinationPath $zipfile

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