##KACE-FTP-BACKUP Powershell Script for Offloading Dell/KACE K1000 Backups via FTP.

This has been designed for KACE OS 6.4 only. 6.3 and prior utilized a different method of backup that will not be recognized by this script.

##What does it do? KACE K1000 Backups are accessible via a FTP share on the KACE server. This script downloads those backups to a user-defined location for redundancy and to reduce space requirements on the K1000 server.

• User can define number of daily backups that are retained on backup location.
• Destination is checked for sufficient free space prior to each file download
• Daily Incremental backups are downloaded and any dependent base backups are also downloaded.
• Existing downloaded backups are checked and not re-downloaded if they are present with matching filesize
• Existing downloads with mismatched filesizes are deleted and re-downloaded

##Instructions 0. Clone the file OffloadKACEBackupsFTP.ps1 to a designated location on your local system 0. Edit the parameters (Defined below) on your local script 0. Add a task in the Windows 'Task Scheduler' with the action as outlined in the Usage section below, set to run daily at the approximate time your backups generally complete (The script will wait a maximum of 2 hours for the backup to complete)

##Parameters ####These parameters must be personalized in the script before running: $BackupLocation = "\server.address.or.ip\FolderShare" #Destination for backups to be downloaded to (Can also be a local path)

$ServerPath = "kace.domain.com" #Your KACE Server Address

$FTPUser = "kbftp" #User for KACE FTP server (Can only be kbftp)

$FTPPass = "getbxf" #Password for KACE FTP server (getbxf is default, but can be changed at Settings>Security Settings>New FTP user password

$DaystoRetain = 30 #Days of backups to retain on the desitnation location. Backups older than 30 days will be automatically deleted.

$EmailUser = "domain\username" #Username for email account to send error emails from (Recommend using service account)

$EmailFrom = "[email protected]" #Email address for the selected account

$EmailPass = ConvertTo-SecureString "P@Ssw0rD" -AsPlainText -Force #Password for email account for sending error emails

$EmailTo = "[email protected]" #Email which will recieve error emails

$PSEmailServer = "smtp.domain.com" #SMTP server for sending error emails

##Usage

powershell -file OffloadKACEBackupsFTP.ps1