How to automate download of weekly export service files

Question

In SalesForce you can schedule up to weekly "backups"/dumps of your data here: Setup > Administration Setup > Data Management > Data Export

If you have a large Salesforce database there can be a significant number of files to be downloaded by hand.

Does anyone have a best practice, tool, batch file, or trick to automate this process or make it a little less manual?

Answer 1

Try using a  Data Loader (You can easily schedule it for a weekly run and save the data where you want).