I am not aware of any current third party automated backups available.

Is there any method to automatically backup Businessworks 2012?

There currently are no automated backup options supported by Sage BusinessWorks.

While there is no way to do an automated backup that you can later use with the BW "restore", you can certainly use any one of many 3rd party backup programs to back up each company folder(and files within) that could then be reloaded.   Some of these have all the options you could want.  I would still though recommend the doing the internal BW backup periodically including the "system" backup.  The system backup catches the registration, users, custom forms, etc.