Setting up automatic backups in Web Deploy tool

Question

I\'ve been struggling to setup automatic backup, but seems to have hit a wall. Following this document, and using Powershell, I\'ve enabled the backups (TurnOn-Backups -On $

Answer 1

I managed to get VS2010 to deploy automatic backups, by stealing some ideas from this question: msdeploy (Web Deploy) failing with 401 auth issues

First install Web Deploy v3.5 on your local computer - the one with VS2010 installed on it.

Now edit your VS2010 environment config:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe.config
# or
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe.config

Find the node, and add the following just inside it:

Save, and restart VS2010.

You should now find you can use one click publishing in VS2010 to push to a server running Web Deploy v3, and if you've configured backups correctly on the server (see @Chiramisu's answer) then backups should be successfully created! Woop!