Geoffrey:
Thanks for sharing this. I do manually do cpanel backups for all my clients
and always assumed
that there was a way to set up a cron job, but never had time to look into it.
This is great, thanks!
Janet
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From: Geoffrey Schaller <gjschal...@psi-13.com>
To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla@lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 3:49 PM
Subject: [joomla] Two useful links for backing up your cPanel site
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/
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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
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For my home storage solution, I use a ReadyNAS 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.).
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Geoffrey Schaller
gjschal...@psi-13.com
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