How do I schedule site collection or site backups?

Question

I know I can use PowerShell or Central Admin to backup a SharePoint site collection or site.

Is there a way to automate this process or do I have to create a scheduled task that runs either a PowerShell or stsadm command?

Answer 1

As you stated - "create a sheduled task that runs either power-shell or stsadm command". No other options for now and it would be nice to have option of built-in automatic backup in future version of sharepoint

And here is a good post how to do it - Backup site collection.

Answer 2

Open SharePoint management shell or PowerShell and the following command

stsadm -o backup -filename c:\backup.bak -url http://servername

The above command is used to backup the site collection. So if u need to schedule it to run regularly, Save this command in a file with the extension .ps1 and configure it to the Windows Task Scheduler