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| Posted by LP560, 09-01-2007, 07:03 AM |
| I have a shared account which I would like to back-up on a cron job.
I know several people have tried to create these type of scripts but they dont seem to do the following:
1) Full cPanel back-up (files/mysql etc)
2) FTP the back-up to a remote server
3) Delete the back-up on the local server
4) Delete the old back-up on the remote server
Does anyone know of a script that will do the above or several scripts I could use?
Webhostgear have one but that only moves the back-up file between servers, it doesn't backup or delete.
Thanks in advance.
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| Posted by david510, 09-01-2007, 09:14 AM |
| You can find such a script here. I dont remember the exact link of that thread. A search will get you one
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| Posted by foobic, 09-01-2007, 10:21 PM |
| There are so many different backup scripts because they're easy enough to write and different people have different requirements (and different levels of access).
For what you want to do, 1 2 and 3 are all covered by CPanel's own full backup - just view source on the CPanel form you submit to create a full backup and use curl or similar to submit the same data automatically. But I wouldn't want this running from the account itself because it would mean storing the CPanel account password in plain text in the script. You might consider doing it from a secure remote machine though.
4 would be a one-line cron job on the remote machine.
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| Posted by LP560, 09-02-2007, 07:01 AM |
| Ok, I'm getting somewhere with this, just need someone to confirm the following:
The cPanel backup is left on the local server in the main root directory. I dont want these to build up, so I will need a cron which finds .tar.gz files and are 2 days old then deletes them. Will the following cron work:
Thanks
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| Posted by foobic, 09-02-2007, 09:08 AM |
| If you use the CPanel full backup to remote server option the file that's left in the user directory is a dummy - only 10 or 20 bytes. If you still want to delete these I'd suggest a more specific find command or you might find your clients get unhappy when your script deletes for example /home/username/public_html/our_wedding_pics.tar.gz
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| Posted by LP560, 09-02-2007, 12:07 PM |
| Excellent just what I needed, I wondered about it deleting .tar.gz's in other directory's.
The reason why I wanted the above code is because it leaves the backup file in the root directory (810mb), it isn't a dummy file. I dont know why its doing that, still waiting for the confirmation email from the script.
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| Posted by LP560, 09-03-2007, 05:31 AM |
| Errors:
Tried almost everything but dont seem to be able to rectify the above errors. I think this is why I have the full 830mb backup file left on the local server.
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| Posted by david510, 09-03-2007, 05:41 AM |
| Make sure higher ports (range 35000 to 60000) are opened on the server. If you are using apf, most probably they might be blocked.
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| Posted by foobic, 09-03-2007, 06:04 AM |
| Looks like it's making the connection so it can't be blocked completely. What's the server at the other end? Can you upload a similar sized file manually? scp method might work better if you have that option.
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| Posted by david510, 09-03-2007, 06:36 AM |
| I have come across a similar issue and enabling the higher ports sorted it . It makes connection, but no data is transferred.
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| Posted by foobic, 09-03-2007, 07:17 AM |
| Wouldn't that be in active mode, where the ftp server makes a data connection back to a high numbered local port? This is using passive mode. Could still be the firewall though - check the outbound filtering rules.
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