This isn't directly related to Joomla, but is handy for anyone who wants to do an automated backup of their server / site / cPanel account.
The first is a command / script that runs a complete backup of your cPanel account, and sends it to a remote location. While working with a cPanel dump is not pretty / fun, it's good to have in case something happens to your hosting provider, and they lose your account / shut down / etc. (i.e. - you can't trust them, and you need to restore to another provider from a recent backup). NOT ALL PROVIDERS enable the backup function - BlueHost does not, for example - since it makes it easy to migrate away from them. Check with your hosting provider to see if they allow full cPanel backups. I run this once a week for each cPanel account, and have it FTP the files down to a storage device at my home (since it's "off-site" for my host, and they are all personal sites). http://www.justin-cook.com/wp/2006/12/27/automatic-cpanel-backup-domain-mysql-with-cron-php/ +++ The second is a script that dumps a copy of your mySQL databases, and sends them to a remote location (email, FTP, etc.). It will even clean up after itself, so you only keep the past 4 days, etc. This one, I run nightly, and it FTPs the files to my storage device at home again. If I need to do a restore, the worst I lose is 24 hours worth of content. http://www.ameir.net/blog/archives/48-MySQL-Backup-to-FTP-and-Email-Shell-Script-for-Cron-v2.2.html +++ For my home storage solution, I use a ReadyNAS <http://www.readynas.com>device - they come in home use models, as well as professional models that mount in a rack in a datacenter. They're designed to just store a large amount of data in a very friendly way, and serve it up with several methods (local network browsing, FTP, Web Interface, etc.). -- Geoffrey Schaller gjschal...@psi-13.com
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