SharePoint 2010 Full Farm Backup using PowerShell

You can use the following code to take full backup of SharePoint 2010 farm. I found couple of different scripts on the Internet and combined all of them to the following,so thanks to the authors! This script also send an e-mail about backup success or failure.

   1: Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell

   2: Clear-Host

   3: $Error.Clear()

   4:  

   5: $FromAccount = '<specify from e-mail address to be used in e-mail message>'

   6: $ToAccount = '<specify to e-mail address to be used in e-mail message>'

   7: $smtpServer = '<specify SMTP server>'

   8: $today = (Get-Date -Format yyyy-MM-dd)

   9:  

  10: #if you want to always backup to one directory, remove $today from the following line

  11: $BackupDir = '<specify backup path>\$today'

  12:  

  13: Write-Host -f green "Creating backup folder..."

  14:  

  15: #Comment the following line if you are always backing up to the same directory

  16: [IO.Directory]::CreateDirectory($BackupDir)

  17:  

  18: Write-Host -f green "Initiating backup..."

  19: Backup-SPFarm -Directory $BackupDir -BackupMethod Full -BackupThreads 3 -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

  20:  

  21: IF($Error[0] -ne $null)

  22: {

  23:     Write-Host -f green "Backup encountered error(s)..."       

  24:     $xmldata = [xml](Get-Content ($BackupDir +'\spbrtoc.xml'))

  25:     $Node = $xmldata.SPBackupRestoreHistory.SPHistoryObject | Where-Object {$_.SPErrorCount -gt '0' -and $_.SPStartTime -gt (Get-Date -DisplayHint Date)} 

  26:     $FailureMsg =  $Node[0] | % {$_.SPFailure}

  27:     $Att = ($Node[0] | % {$_.SPBackupDirectory}) + 'spbackup.log'

  28:     $msgBody = 'An Error occurred while trying to backup your SharePoint Farm. Details : ' + $Failuremsg + 'Attached is the Error Log for additional reference.'

  29:  

  30:     $SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer) 

  31:     $SMTPClient.Send($FromAccount, $ToAccount, 'Error Occured in SharePoint Backup', $msgBody)

  32:      Write-Host -f green "Failure e-mail sent" 

  33: }

  34: Else

  35: {

  36:     $msgBody = "Backup completed successfully on "+"$today"

  37:     $SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer) 

  38:     

  39:     $SMTPClient.Send($FromAccount, $ToAccount, 'SharePoint Farm Backup was Successful', $msgBody)

  40:      Write-Host -f green "Success e-mail sent" 

  41: }

  42: Write-Host -f Green "Operation Complete"