Re: FN-FORUM: Happy New Year, and question about backing up website data

date posted 2nd January 2007 10:02

A host I use offers cron jobs from cpanel, so you don't need to have shell
access.

For servers with shell access I would recommend a nightly db dump and use of
rdiff-backup.

You could setup cygwin if you don't run linux to perform the cron job from
your local machine.

HNY all.

Regards

Richard


On Tuesday 02 January 2007 10:21, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> HNY to you too :)
>
> If any of your hosting is ona unix system you could use a CRON task
> (scheduled script execution) to 'zip' the entire site and email it to
> yourself on a weekly/monthly basis. That kind of hinges on your host
> allowing you to do such things though. Backing up the mysql should be
> doable this way too, since you'll need shell access to set the CRON up and
> from the shell you can use mysql commands to export the database.
>
> >Happy New Year to you all!,
> >
> >Right, I am wondering whether there is an "easy" way to back up web
> >sites' data (including possibly the MySQL as well).
> >I have several sites I manage for clients, not all with the same
> >hosting companies, and am trying to ut down on standard FTP-ing to
> >back up.
> >
> >Many thanks,
> >
> >Duncan Glendinning

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