I created Powershell backup script that iterates the Get-AXModel output and does backups.
Change variables at the top of the file to meet your configuration.
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<#
backup of ax models.
Gary Holsopple
Vitamix...
gholsopple@vitamix.com
created 1.18.2012
changed to iterate xml 4/11/2012
#>
import-module "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\ManagementUtilities\Microsoft.Dynamics.ManagementUtilities.ps1"
#region functions
Function New-BackUpFolder($destinationFolder)
{
$dte = get-date
$dte = $dte.tostring() -replace "[:\s/]", "."
$backUpPath = "$destinationFolder" + $dte
$null = New-Item -path $backUpPath -itemType directory
return $backUpPath
} #end New-BackUpFolder
Function fBackup([string]$model, [string]$fileName, [string]$axEnv)
{
Export-AXModel -model $model -file $fileName -config $axEnv
}
#endregion
#region Variables
$axBackupFolder = "c:\axModelBackup\"
$backupFilePath = New-BackupFolder($axBackupFolder)
$devenv = "DynamicsAX12Development"
[System.Collections.ArrayList] $e = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
$e = @("Foundation";
"Foundation Labels";
"Foundation Upgrade";
"Update for Foundation Upgrade";
"Update for Foundation";
"SYP Labels";)
[System.Xml.XmlDocument] $xml
[System.Xml.XmlNode] $obj
[System.Xml.XmlNode] $property
#endregion
#region do the work
$xml = (Get-AXModel | convertto-xml )
$nodes = $xml.SelectNodes("Objects/Object")
foreach ($obj in $nodes)
{
foreach ($property in $obj.SelectNodes("Property"))
{
if ($property.GetAttribute("Name").Equals( "Name" ))
{
$nameToBackup = $property.InnerText
if ($e.contains($nameToBackup))
{
continue
}
$backupFileName = $backupFilePath + "\" + $nameToBackup + ".axmodel"
fBackup $nameToBackup $backupFileName $devenv
}
}
}
#endregion
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