SharePoint 2010 Farm configuration backup and Clean up Script

I have to take the backup of the farm while excluding the Web Applicaitons and schedule it each night. Also, part of backup strategy do includes cleaning the old backups.

Have written the script to backup the farm configurations (Intimate farm admin with Email for success and failure) and clean old backup folder. Scripts could be downloaded from below mentioned location
https://sites.google.com/site/mossforsurecontent/content-for-moss-for-sure/backupscript
These Powershell could be scheduled through task scheduler for creating farm configuration backup and delete the old one based on Retention period.

SharePoint 2010 SP1 released.

SharePiont 2010 SP1 Released. Please follow links to get details:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460045
Key areas of improvement:

• Improve support of IE9


• Recycle Bin could now be restored from Site Colleciton or Web that has been deleted.


• RBS and shallow copy features to improve efficiency by moving pointers to database instead of moving databases.


• Folders storage details on SharePoint site.


• Support for MS SQL 2011.


• More Robust search host distribution service that improves error recovery and performance during search crawl.

SharePoint update details could be found at.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff800847.aspx