Sharepoint 2010 - Scheduled Backup

It is impossible to do it via Central Administration.

To be able to schedule your backups you need to create a batch file and use Task Scheduler to schedule.

Important:
You need to use an admin account to run the batch file successfully (SP Admin account would be fine), otherwise you ll get `Access Denied` error.

Create a .bat file using notepad, paste the code below, fix the backup path (best practice would be using a shared location if you have multiple servers to backup.)



Another note:

Ex:
If you have the backup batch file in D: but stsadm.exe is on c:
Put `c:` above the line
cd %COMMONPROGRAMFILES% ...


Ex:

...
echo====..
c:
cd %COMMONPROGRAMFILES% ...
...

CODE:


@echo off
echo ===============================================================
echo Back up the farm to C:\backup
echo ===============================================================
cd %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN
@echo off
stsadm.exe -o backup -directory "\backup" -backupmethod full
echo completed


Source:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288541(office.12).aspx