Automatic compressed archive.

[andicole0]

Each month I create a backup copy of a small business data set which in total ends up at about 50GB. These are created in a new dated folder and currently keep about 12 on a rolling basis.

I'd like to compress and archive each new folder after it's been created but not to repeat the older folders.

Is it possible to schedule something like 7-Zip so that it recognises only the new folder? then compresses it to a different NAS device?
Cheers.
Andi.

 

[lurkio]

Yes its possible, I do a daily database backup then compress it using 7z

How are you creating the backup folder ? batch file ?

Most effecient way would be to compress it first on the host machine then move the 7z
file to the NAS

 

[andicole0]

Backups are created once a month by Cobian and each is a new folder named by date. I want to automatically archive and compress the new folder say in the middle of the month. So I'd need a compression tool that can recognise a new folder in a main backup folder.
Cheers.
Andi.