Backing Up SCOM Custom Management Packs Automatically With Folder Structure

I was asked by a customer to create a simple automated backup method to ensure their custom SCOM management packs were backed up, but also whilst keeping a sensible folder structure. This ended up being a simple PowerShell script which was ran on a schedule using Task Scheduler on one of the management servers.

One of the requests was to give a folder structure like this: \<date>\<management pack name>\<management pack version>\.

The following PowerShell script is what we used to achieve this:

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Import-Module OperationsManager

Get-ChildItem “E:\Management Packs\Backups\Overrides” |? {$_.psiscontainer -and $_.lastwritetime -le (get-date).adddays(-7)} |% {remove-item $_ -force -Recurse}

$date = date -Format dd-MM-yyyy

$csv = “E:\Management Packs\Backups\OverridesList.csv”

Get-SCOMManagementPack | ?{$_.displayname -like “*.Overrides*”} | Export-CSV -Path $csv -Force

$list = Import-CSV -Path $csv

foreach ($item in $list)

{
$foldername = $item.DisplayName
$folderversion = $item.Version

If (!(Test-Path “E:\Management Packs\Backups\Overrides\$date\$foldername”)) {

New-Item -Path “E:\Management Packs\Backups\Overrides\$date\$foldername” -ItemType Directory
}
}

foreach ($item in $list)

{
$foldername = $item.DisplayName
$folderversion = $item.Version

If (!(Test-Path “E:\Management Packs\Backups\Overrides\$date\$foldername\$folderversion”)) {

New-Item -Path “E:\Management Packs\Backups\Overrides\$date\$foldername\$folderversion” -ItemType Directory
}
}

foreach ($item in $list)
{
$foldername = $item.DisplayName
$folderversion = $item.Version
$mpid = $item.Id

Get-SCOMManagementPack -Id $mpid | Export-SCOMManagementPack -Path “E:\Management Packs\Backups\Overrides\$date\$foldername\$folderversion”

}

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There were some simpler versions of this, such as just creating folders for name and version, but these can be acheived by removing code from the above script.