How to set up automatic backups in InDesign

Does anyone know how to set an automatic to InDesign? Yes, I am aware that there are tons of available general safeguards and can always ' Save as ' to make copies. However, in a team environment where many people work on InDesign files, need a more robust solution to backup specifically for InDesign. From Quark, there is an automatic backup available at defined intervals. Running: InDesign CC 2014.

I came across a script that seems to be exactly cela, but appears to have been written for Apple Script as oppose to the Java Script. Maybe someone can translate that into Javascript. Using a windows platform, Apple Script of course will not work. The script is the following:

Anyone with the help, thank you very much in advance.

Tell application "Finder" to the value backupPath file "Macintosh HD:documents:backup files.

Tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"

Try

CheminMonFichier the value path of the active document

full name of the active document myFile value

put the cd with the current date

Set to nuName name of the active document

the value nuName nuName & "-" & ((year of cd) & (month of the cd) & (cd day) as String)

the value nuName nuName & "-" & (cd time) as string

Tell application "Finder".

duplicate the backupFile myFile value to backupPath

the name of backupFile nuName value

tell the end

Save the active document

in case of error

Save the active document

try to end

tell the end

Martin Fischer wrote that a script, saveVersions.jsx , published in www.hilfdirselbst.ch:

InDesign Script - automatic Sicherungskopien in Unterordner create

His companion script is VersionsCounter.jsx :

InDesign Script - automatic Sicherungskopien in Unterordner create

Maybe you can use them.

saveVersions.jsx is a "Save as copy" in the background, whenever you do a 'save' or ' Save as ' in your document. The versions are stored in a folder named "versions" in the same folder or your original InDesign file is located. Versions are numbered (it will ask for time to number first Max you use). You can reset this number with VersionsCounter.jsx.

Should work with all versions of InDesign CS3 and above.
I use it myself with InDesign CS3, CS4, CS5, CS6 and CS5.5.
Didn't test for superior versions.

You must place the code in the folder the folder scripting InDesign scripts. If there is no startup script, simply create a named exactly like this (without the quotes): "startup scripts".

Uwe

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