How to schedule automatic backups in teamcity?

You could use the REST API to run the backup. We actually use TeamCity to run a scheduled build at midnight each day. That build makes a call to the rest api to do the backup.

I wrote Powershell script for TeamCity auto backups, which you can schedule and run backup.

Here's the code:

function Execute-HTTPPostCommand() {
    param(
        [string] $url,
        [string] $username,
        [string] $password
    )

    $authInfo = $username + ":" + $password
    $authInfo = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::Default.GetBytes($authInfo))

    $webRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)
    $webRequest.ContentType = "text/html"
    $PostStr = [System.Text.Encoding]::Default.GetBytes("")
    $webrequest.ContentLength = $PostStr.Length
    $webRequest.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + $authInfo
    $webRequest.PreAuthenticate = $true
    $webRequest.Method = "POST"

    $requestStream = $webRequest.GetRequestStream()
    $requestStream.Write($PostStr, 0, $PostStr.length)
    $requestStream.Close()

    [System.Net.WebResponse] $resp = $webRequest.GetResponse();
    $rs = $resp.GetResponseStream();
    [System.IO.StreamReader] $sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -argumentList $rs;
    [string] $results = $sr.ReadToEnd();

    return $results;
}

function Execute-TeamCityBackup() {
    param(
        [string] $server,
        [string] $addTimestamp,
        [string] $includeConfigs,
        [string] $includeDatabase,
        [string] $includeBuildLogs,
        [string] $includePersonalChanges,
        [string] $fileName
    )
    $TeamCityURL = [System.String]::Format("{0}/httpAuth/app/rest/server/backup?addTimestamp={1}&includeConfigs={2}&includeDatabase={3}&includeBuildLogs={4}&includePersonalChanges={5}&fileName={6}",
                                            $server,
                                            $addTimestamp,
                                            $includeConfigs,
                                            $includeDatabase,
                                            $includeBuildLogs,
                                            $includePersonalChanges,
                                            $fileName);

    Execute-HTTPPostCommand $TeamCityURL "USER" "PASSWORD"
}

$server = "http://YOUR_SERVER"
$addTimestamp = $true
$includeConfigs = $true
$includeDatabase = $true
$includeBuildLogs = $true
$includePersonalChanges = $true
$fileName = "TeamCity_Backup_"

Execute-TeamCityBackup $server $addTimestamp $includeConfigs $includeDatabase $includeBuildLogs $includePersonalChanges $fileName

If you don't want to write programs to perform your task, simply run this command:

wget --user=*** --password=*** "http://localhost:8085/httpAuth/app/rest/server/backup?includeConfigs=true&includeDatabase=true&includeBuildLogs=true&fileName=ScheduledBackup-" --post-data= 

where stars should be replaced with your TeamCity login information.

On Windows, you can get WGET as a part of Cygwin package