What is the best way to back-up eM Client?

[Gary]

How to setup an eM Client backup to run every two days, and preserve the last two month’s copies.

1. The first thing to do is setup the eM Client Backup in Menu > Settings > Backup. When you are done, click on OK and wait for a backup to take place, which it should do within a few minutes.

2. Once the first backup is complete, disable backups in eM Client’s settings.

3. In Windows go to the Start Menu > Windows Administrative Tools and select Task Scheduler.

4. Click on Task Scheduler Library and find the eM Client backup in the list of tasks. Double click on the task to edit it.

5. Go to the Triggers tab and select Edit. Here you can change the time the backup will run, and how often. When you are finished, click OK.

6. Now click on the Actions tab and select New.

7. Here we are going to create a new action to delete backup zip files older than 60 days. We will specify a program to run and an argument to delete files older than 60 days.
   For the Program/script, paste in ForFiles.exe
   For the argument, paste in /p "D:\Backups" /s /d -60 /c "cmd /c del @file"
   Substitute whatever path you set in your eM Client Backup settings in step 1.

8. Click OK, You now have a task that will run every 2 days, first making a backup and then deleting the backup zip files older than 60 days.

9. The final step is to make sure the task is enabled. Right-click on the task and choose Enable.