AccredoVSSBackup / AccredoVSSBackup64 Utility

These Utilities are installed with the Server install, and may be used to automate Accredo Backup from a command line or scheduled task to perform VSS Snapshot backups.
The 7z.dll and 7z64.dll files in the system directory are installed with and required for these Utilities.

Requirements

• AccredoVSSWriter
• must be run from the server
• must be run as Administrator
• the exe must match the Operating System bitness. i.e. AccredoVSSBackup64.exe on 64-bit Windows Servers

Command Line

AccredoVSSBackup64.exe [options] <source> <backupfile>

Optional parameters:

/include - specifies a list of files to include e.g /include=*.pdb will only include pdb files in backup

/ignore - specifies a list of files to ignore, e.g /ignore=*.log will exclude all log files from backup

/includesubfolders - default to true, e.g /includesubfolders=false will exclude all subfolders

/ignorefolders - specifies a semi-colon separated list of sub-folders to ignore. e.g /ignorefolders = links;images will exclude links and images sub-folders from the backup

/verify - default to false, e.g. /verify=true will verify the backup file

The optional paramerters must be supplied before source and backup file, e.g

AccredoVSSBackup64.exe /include=*.p??;*.a?? /ignore=*.log /includesubfolders=false /verify=true data001 mybackup.7z