Now you can use the .bat start script in Windows Scheduler to backup your sharepoint farm. In the Task Scheduler, the account needs to be set with admin permissions to run it properly.
To clean up older sharepoint backups, schedule the following powershell script. This script checks the spbrtoc.xml for the number of sharepoint backups.
# 10 Days of backup will be remaining after backup cleanup.
A little script to do a DPM 2010 restore on item-level to a SharePoint 2010 farm directly after creating the first backup of the SharePoint 2010 environment. Normally every 24 hours, DPM will create a catalogue of the Sharepoint environment in order to allow the item-level recovery. To force this task (for demo purposes maybe) you can run the following PS commands to do the trick.
$dataSource = Get-Datasource $protectionGroup [index number 1] // the index number of the SharePoint Protection group, type $protectionGroup to get a list.
My next step with this script is the possibility to read all the variables from a Excel sheet. That will give you the possibility to create numerous Site Collections from one Excel sheet.
#Managed path needed or not?
#New Content Database needed or not?
Suggestions and Ideas for this Script are welcome!