Automated FTP scheduling

pburns

Ok, if I have a website on a dedicated server. A client requires a back-up site to be available. For cost reasons this would be on a shared server.

What is the best way (or best tools) to go about automated FTP scheduling - perhaps nightly - from the dedicated site to the shared back-up? Can just updated files be detected?

Rollo Tamasi

If you're on apache you can setup a cron job to backup your database.
Cpanel comes with this function built in.

For files you can check out this guy here > http://webnet77.com/scripts/backup-lite/index.html
It's a perl script.

I'm sure there are php variants out there for this but i don't know of any off hand. If you're going from one sever to another server you will need to make sure you're allowed to do remote sql connections for db backups.

pburns

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

If you're on apache you can setup a cron job to backup your database.
Cpanel comes with this function built in.

For files you can check out this guy here > http://webnet77.com/scripts/backup-lite/index.html
It's a perl script.

I'm sure there are php variants out there for this but i don't know of any off hand. If you're going from one sever to another server you will need to make sure you're allowed to do remote sql connections for db backups.

Thanks for this.

However, I should have explained it's Windows hosting. It's mainly web files at the moment rather than a db-backend site.

Asok

What you could do is schedule an automatic upload of the site using windows task scheduler and a batch file. http://www.textheavy.com/tutorials/batchfile.html has a descent guide on how to construct the configuration script and the batch file itself. I don't know if it will suit what you want to do but if you hit any bumps with it let us know what they are and we can try help.