Back up the farm using power shell

I got a requirement from my client to take the backup of the farm on a weekly basis using automated scheduler.

we do have a standard powershell cmdlet, that helps us in taking the back up of farm using backup-spfarm cmdlet.

We could do the job on a dialy or weekly basis with power shell script and windows task scheduler.

After I searched for some time , I got an excellent blog from http://sharepointpolice.com/ .

Here is the same script , I used for my farm.

	Add-PSSnapin Microsofot.SharePoint.Powershell -erroraction silentlycontinue
	try
	{
	--create the directory with the today's date
	$today=Get-Date -format "dd-MM-yyyy"
	[IO.Directory]::CreateDirectory("\\SPQABackup\$today")
	Backup-SPFarm -directory SPQABackup\$today -Backupmethod full
	$emailfrom="homeq@domain.com"
	$emailto="emilgroup@domain.com"
	$subject="Farm backup schedule updated "+$today
	$body="The sharepoint QA farm back up was successfull for "+$today
	--check central admin for outbound email settings and get that adderss here
	$smtpserver="mailhost.domain.com"
	$smtp=new-object Net.Mail.Smtpclient($smtpserver)
	$smtp.send($emailfrom,$emailto,$subject,$body);
	}
	catch
	{
	$errormessage=$_.Exception.Message
	$emailfrom="SPAdmin@domain.com"
	$emailto="people@domain.com"
	$subject="Farm Back up schedule status "+$today
	$body="The sharepoint QA farm back up was failed for "+$today+" "+$errormessage;
	$smtpserver="mailhost.domain.com"
	$smtp=new-object Net.Mail.Smtpclient($smtpserver)
	$smtp.send($emailfrom,$emailto,$subject,$body)
	}

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