Comments on: Automate Your Web Site Backup!

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:54:44 +0000

@Yvette – Probably yes, but maybe the files will be too large for email? For web hosting clients, you can try here: http://www.dagondesign.com/art.....up-script/ or here http://www.justin-cook.com/wp/.....-cron-php/ or even here: http://jussi.ruokomaki.fi/tech.....lcron-v11/ I think these links will help you with the emailing part.

By: Yvette

Yvette — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:16:31 +0000

Hello,

Great article you have here! However, I have a question: Is it possible to send the back up to an email instead?

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:13:02 +0000

@vladi – The first time I connected manually during the set-up, I got the terminal prompt to add the key. After that it’s been running since, without the username and password (because it uses the key). So… as you mentioned, ssh has to be properly configured on the web server, if not, then it rsync will fail, in this case. ;) Thanks. :)

By: vladi

vladi — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:29:51 +0000

for rsync to work whith cron trough ssh, you “must” generate authkey without password, or your cron job may not connect to the server, because the ssh will require to enter pass, but cron cannot!

By: Rolf

Rolf — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:42:03 +0000

Try rsnapshot!

It tankes advantage of the ext2/ext3 hardlinking features to save diskspace for unchanged files. It gives you “full backup” but does only require just a little more than the space of one full backup, plus incrementals.

It gives you the possibility to go back in time, restoring just a file, a directory and a lot more…

It is based on rsync.
http://www.rsnapshot.org/

By: Automate Your Web Site Backup! : HowtoMatrix

Automate Your Web Site Backup! : HowtoMatrix — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:03:14 +0000

[...] But, what if there were no backups? What if your hosting provider cannot restore data at their end? To be blunt, you’d be back to square one! Developing a whole new site or blog from the beginning! Automate Your Web Site Backup! That’s a chilling thought, to lose everything and start again. Automate Your Web Site Backup! Read more at Ubuntu Linux Help [...]

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:31:12 +0000

@Arp – I would think so! ;)
There’s no reason why you can send stuff to your server.

By: Arp

Arp — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:28:02 +0000

Would this work in reverse as well? I’ve been looking for away to back up my local data (photos, etc). My host has good redundancy, and my experience with ElephantDesktop was a travesty.

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:32:35 +0000

@Kenney – Thanks. :) One thing I also realized is when cPanel makes the backups on the server, it already compresses them to .gz files so no need to re-compress using rsync (which will make the download slower). Therefore I removed the -z switch. ;)

By: Kenney

Kenney — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:09:00 +0000

Thank you very much. This was something I was looking for. I also had troubles with my hosting provider.

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