Hourly backup of folder

Question

I need a backup application which automatically backs up a folder into a zip (named the date/time), hourly.

Which application can I use for this?

I'm running Windows 7 (32bit) Ultimate.

Answer 1

I'd suggest Cobian backup. You can set it to back up your folder hourly and it's possible to name the backups as date/time (or anything you'd like, really)

Answer 2

You could create a batch file using the command line version of 7zip (7za) and then use the standard Windows task scheduler to kick it off as required.

Something like:

7za -a -tzip c:\MyZipfile_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-10,2%.zip c:\myfoldertozip\*.*

That creates a zip file with a name based on the current date. Have a look at this article for ways to grab date/time values for the filename and here for how to use the task scheduler.