You need some type of zip/rar program installed since windows doesn't come with one. I use 7z because its good and free. Place this code in backup.cmd somewhere in your path (eg in the misc folder we've been using in handmade hero). Then just type backup from your projects folder.
It gets the current folder name (eg if you're in w:\projects\handmade it gets the name "handmade") checks the destination folder for a "handmade" folder, creates it if doesn't exist, zips all files and subfolders in the current dir, and creates handmade_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.7z in the destination\handmade folder.
Change the DEST_FOLDER to where you want your source versions to go.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | @echo off setlocal set DEST_PATH=d:\archive set path=%path%;C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip REM REM Gets the current folder name, not the full path REM for %%* in (.) do set PROJ_NAME=%%~n* set YEAR=%date:~-4,4% set MONTH=%date:~-7,2% set DAY=%date:~-10,2% set HOUR=%time:~-11,2% set MIN=%time:~-8,2% set SEC=%time:~-5,2% set DEST_FILENAME=%PROJ_NAME%_%YEAR%%MONTH%%DAY%_%HOUR%%MIN%%SEC% if exist %DEST_PATH%\%PROJ_NAME% goto start mkdir %DEST_PATH%\%PROJ_NAME% :start 7z a -r %DEST_PATH%\%PROJ_NAME%\%DEST_FILENAME%.7z * |