How to schedule automatic backups in teamcity?

Question

We are using Teamcity 6.5.6 professional version, which gives me the option to run a backup but I do not see any option to schedule it to a particular time.

I am not sure if this version of teamcity even supports scheduled backups. If it is not possible through teamcity GUI, I wonder if there is any other option?

Could someone please help?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I wrote Powershell script for TeamCity auto backups, which you can schedule and run backup.

Here's the code:

function Execute-HTTPPostCommand() {     param(         [string] $url,         [string] $username,         [string] $password     )      $authInfo = $username + ":" + $password     $authInfo = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::Default.GetBytes($authInfo))      $webRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)     $webRequest.ContentType = "text/html"     $PostStr = [System.Text.Encoding]::Default.GetBytes("")     $webrequest.ContentLength = $PostStr.Length     $webRequest.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + $authInfo     $webRequest.PreAuthenticate = $true     $webRequest.Method = "POST"      $requestStream = $webRequest.GetRequestStream()     $requestStream.Write($PostStr, 0, $PostStr.length)     $requestStream.Close()      [System.Net.WebResponse] $resp = $webRequest.GetResponse();     $rs = $resp.GetResponseStream();     [System.IO.StreamReader] $sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -argumentList $rs;     [string] $results = $sr.ReadToEnd();      return $results; }  function Execute-TeamCityBackup() {     param(         [string] $server,         [string] $addTimestamp,         [string] $includeConfigs,         [string] $includeDatabase,         [string] $includeBuildLogs,         [string] $includePersonalChanges,         [string] $fileName     )     $TeamCityURL = [System.String]::Format("{0}/httpAuth/app/rest/server/backup?addTimestamp={1}&includeConfigs={2}&includeDatabase={3}&includeBuildLogs={4}&includePersonalChanges={5}&fileName={6}",                                             $server,                                             $addTimestamp,                                             $includeConfigs,                                             $includeDatabase,                                             $includeBuildLogs,                                             $includePersonalChanges,                                             $fileName);      Execute-HTTPPostCommand $TeamCityURL "USER" "PASSWORD" }  $server = "http://YOUR_SERVER" $addTimestamp = $true $includeConfigs = $true $includeDatabase = $true $includeBuildLogs = $true $includePersonalChanges = $true $fileName = "TeamCity_Backup_"  Execute-TeamCityBackup $server $addTimestamp $includeConfigs $includeDatabase $includeBuildLogs $includePersonalChanges $fileName