IIS backup on Multiple servers from Powershell

Question

Can someone help me with backup of IIS on multiple servers from powershell script remotely. I can take backup of IIS from powershell command.

backup-webconfiguration -name IIS_backup.

Also i have a batch script which takes backup but that works only for one server . I have to login locally and run this as a batch job.

@echo off cls pushd "%WinDir%\System32\inetsrv" echo.| date | find /i "current">datetime1.tmp echo.| time | find /i "current">datetime2.tmp for /f "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6" %%i in (datetime1.tmp) do ( echo %%n>datetime1.tmp ) for /f "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6" %%i in (datetime2.tmp) do ( echo %%m>datetime2.tmp ) for /f "delims=/ tokens=1,2,3" %%i in (datetime1.tmp) do ( set TMPDATETIME=%%k%%i%%j ) for /f "delims=:. tokens=1,2,3,4" %%i in (datetime2.tmp) do ( set TMPDATETIME=D%TMPDATETIME%T%%i%%j%%k%%l ) appcmd add backups %TMPDATETIME% del datetime1.tmp del datetime2.tmp set TMPDATETIME= popd echo. 

Currently i have worked on these two scripts . If possible please help me with taking backup of IIS remotely on multiple servers either through powershell or batch file.

Answer 1

Provided PSRemoting is enabled on your web servers you can simply run the following command to run the backup on multiple computers:

invoke-command -ComputerName "webserver1","webserver2","webserver3" -Scriptblock {Import-Module WebAdministration; backup-webconfiguration -name IIS_backup} 

You can also separate your server list from the command as follows:

$Computers = "webserver1","webserver2","webserver3" invoke-command -ComputerName $Computers -Scriptblock {Import-Module WebAdministration; backup-webconfiguration -name IIS_backup} 

You can then populate the $Computers variable in a variety of ways. For instance, from a text file or from and AD query.