snapcontrol/README.md

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 (.exe and .ini file) to some path of your choice
• 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 will find "snapcontrol.ini" automagically in the path where snapcontrol.exe was installed!

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

USAGE

C:\>snapcontrol.exe /?
usage: snapcontrol.exe [ /S | /I | /V | /D | /? ]
    /S = silent mode (no user interaction!)
    /I = install/update scheduler job
    /V = show version
    /D = dry run
    /? = help

RETURNCODES:
-----------------------------------------------------
99 = usage was called / wrong arguments or parameters
98 = cannot read inifile (does not exist ?)
97 = i don't have admin rights
96 = mailer (cmail) not found or not working
95 = Drive Snapshot version is not supported
94 = Drive Snapshot exe not found
 0 = OK

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