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Both answers are fantastic and very informative. Hard to choose which is the best solution. I have a slight preference to the second solution because it includes the exact commands I need in this case. Also, I was unaware of the existence of the &quot;start systemstatebackup&quot; parameter. I only knew the -systemstate argument used for the &quot;start backup&quot; parameter. This makes it even simpler! Thanks a mill both Ivan &amp;&nbsp;Shaun!
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Hi,<br />
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I want to do an automatic daily system state backup of my 2012 R2 DC. I only want to keep the backups of the last 2 days. <br />
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There is one caveat: I want to backup to a network share (and via the wizard it only allows one version of my backup). <br />
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This should be possible via a scheduled task or something, no? <br />
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Thanks a lot for the help already!<br />
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Kind regards,
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Hi,

I want to do an automatic daily system state backup of my 2012 R2 DC. I only want to keep the backups of the last 2 days. 

There is one caveat: I want to backup to a network share (and via the wizard it only allows one version of my backup). 

This should be possible via a scheduled task or something, no? 

Thanks a lot for the help already!

Kind regards,

Schedule a daily system state backup while only keeping the backup of the last 2 days

task scheduler

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.