Moving Time

A Powershell script that allows a user to backup and restore a list of files or file paths via a GUI.

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Demo the script

• Clone or download this repo
• Go into the example folder and double-click the genFiles.bat file. It'll then set up some folders and files of varying sizes.
• Then go back up to the root of this repo and right-click moving-time.ps1 and select Run with Powershell.
• Once the GUI opens, click the Start Backup button.
  • Once the script has completed you'll see the example/output folder now has a backup folder in it, with the folders and files specified in example/conf.psd1.
• After the backup has completed, rename example/source to example/source.bak.
• Click the Restore radio at the top of the GUI and then click the Start Restore button.
  • Once the script has completed you'll see the example/source folder has been created, containing the files and folders from example/output.

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Create your own config

• Copy the file example/conf.psd1 to the root of the repo
• At the top of moving-time.ps1
  • Find the # Import config line, and edit the below lines to look like:

  $conf = Import-PowerShellDataFile ".\conf.psd1"
  # $conf = Import-PowerShellDataFile ".\example\conf.psd1"

Here are the available top-level options for a config:

Prop	Type	Value
bagPath	String	Absolute or relative path to where files will be backed up to or restored from.
itemsList	Array of HashTable

The available properties for itemsList are listed below. Optional properties are surrounded in [<NAME>].

Prop	Type	Value
label	String	The name that will be printed above each item being synced.
paths	Array of String	Absolute or relative path to a folder or file.
[excludedFiles]	String	A space delimited list of file names or paths that won't be synced.
[excludedFolders]	String	A space delimited list of folders that won't be synced.
[filters]	String	Files or file types that will be synced. It uses Robocopy's File syntax for patterns.
[recursive]	Boolean	All syncs are recursive by default, but if you want to only copy top-level files, you would set this to $false.

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Creating a shortcut to the script

• Right-click moving-time.ps1 and select Create Shortcut
• Right-click the new shortcut and select Properties
• Change Target to %WINDIR%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File ".\moving-time.ps1". If you want to have the shortcut in another location other than this folder, change .\moving-time.ps1 to be the absolute path of the file.
• Click the Change Icon button, navigate to this folder and select assets/app.ico.

Now you can just double click the shortcut and it'll run via Powershell.

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Notes

• Generated .ico file via https://redketchup.io/icon-editor
• Got the icon from https://www.synology.com/zh-tw/dsm/packages/ActiveBackup
• Used this online tool to flesh out the GUI https://poshgui.com/Editor