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Site and mySQL backups via cron
by Jase2 03 Feb 2008

Site Backup via Cron:

Code:
<?
$datestamp = date("Y-m-d_H-i-s");      // Current date to append to filename of backup file in format of YYYY-MM-DD
/* CONFIGURE THE FOLLOWING VARIABLES TO MATCH YOUR SETUP */
$filename= "Full_Account_Backup-$datestamp.tar";   // The name (and optionally path) of the dump file
$ftp_server = "123.123.123.123";      // Name or IP. Shouldn't have any trailing slashes and shouldn't be prefixed with ftp://
$ftp_port = "21";   // FTP port - blank defaults to port 21
$ftp_username = "anonymous";      // FTP account username
$ftp_password = "";      // FTP account password - blank for anonymous
$filename = "/home/YOURACCOUNT/" . $filename . ".gz";
$command = "tar cvf ~/$filename ~/*";
$result = exec($command);
$command = "gzip -9 -S .gz ~/$filename";
$result = exec($command);
// set up basic connection
$ftp_conn = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
// Turn PASV mode on or off
ftp_pasv($ftp_conn, false);
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($ftp_conn, $ftp_username, $ftp_password);
// check connection
if ((!$ftp_conn) || (!$login_result))
{
   echo "FTP connection has failed.";
   echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_username";
   exit;
}
else
{
   echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_username";
}
// upload the file
$upload = ftp_put($ftp_conn, "foo.tar.gz", $filename, FTP_BINARY);
// check upload status
if (!$upload)
{
   echo "FTP upload has failed.";
}
else
{
   echo "Uploaded $filename to $ftp_server.";
}
// close the FTP stream
ftp_close($ftp_conn);
unlink($filename);   //delete the backup file from the server
?>

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MySQL backup via cron - Emailed to You:

Code:
<?
$datestamp = date("Y-m-d");      // Current date to append to filename of backup file in format of YYYY-MM-DD
/* CONFIGURE THE FOLLOWING SEVEN VARIABLES TO MATCH YOUR SETUP */
$dbuser = "";            // Database username
$dbpwd = "";            // Database password
$dbname = "";            // Database name. Use --all-databases if you have more than one
$filename= "backup-$datestamp.sql.gz";   // The name (and optionally path) of the dump file
$to = "email";      // Email address to send dump file to
$from = "email";      // Email address message will show as coming from.
$subject = "MySQL backup file";      // Subject of email
$command = "mysqldump -u $dbuser --password=$dbpwd $dbname | gzip > $filename";
$result = passthru($command);
$attachmentname = array_pop(explode("/", $filename));   // If a path was included, strip it out for the attachment name
$message = "Compressed database backup file $attachmentname attached.";
$mime_boundary = "<<<:" . md5(time());
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode(implode("", file($filename))));
$headers = "From: $from\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: multipart/mixed;\r\n";
$headers .= " boundary=\"".$mime_boundary."\"\r\n";
$content = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n\r\n";
$content.= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";
$content.= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
$content.= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n";
$content.= $message."\r\n";
$content.= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";
$content.= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\r\n";
$content.= "Content-Type: Application/Octet-Stream; name=\"$attachmentname\"\r\n";
$content.= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n";
$content.= $data."\r\n";
$content.= "--" . $mime_boundary . "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $content, $headers);
unlink($filename);   //delete the backup file from the server
?>
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MySQL backup via cron - FTPed to You
:

Code:
<?
$datestamp = date("Y-m-d");      // Current date to append to filename of backup file in format of YYYY-MM-DD
/* CONFIGURE THE FOLLOWING THREE VARIABLES TO MATCH YOUR SETUP */
$dbuser = "";      // Database username
$dbpwd = "";         // Database password
$dbname = "";      // Database name. Use --all-databases if you have more than one
$filename= "backup-$datestamp.sql.gz";   // The name (and optionally path) of the dump file
$command = "mysqldump -u $dbuser --password=$dbpwd $dbname | gzip > $filename";
$result = passthru($command);
/* CONFIGURE THE FOLLOWING FOUR VARIABLES TO MATCH YOUR FTP SETUP */
$ftp_server = "";   // Shouldn't have any trailing slashes and shouldn't be prefixed with ftp://
$ftp_port = "21";            // FTP port - blank defaults to port 21
$ftp_username = "anonymous";         // FTP account username
$ftp_password = "";         // FTP account password - blank for anonymous
// set up basic connection
$ftp_conn = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
// Turn PASV mode on or off
ftp_pasv($ftp_conn, false);
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($ftp_conn, $ftp_username, $ftp_password);
// check connection
if ((!$ftp_conn) || (!$login_result))
{
   echo "FTP connection has failed.";
   echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_username";
   exit;
}
else
{
   echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_username";
}
// upload the file
$upload = ftp_put($ftp_conn, $filename, $filename, FTP_BINARY);
// check upload status
if (!$upload)
{
   echo "FTP upload has failed.";
}
else
{
   echo "Uploaded $filename to $ftp_server.";
}
// close the FTP stream
ftp_close($ftp_conn);
unlink($filename);   //delete the backup file from the server
?>

All these scripts should have the .php extension, and the file should have 755 permissions.

Don't forget to change the first few variables to the beginning of the scripts to match your site details. Also note, that you will need to set-up a cron job via your cPanel, with a path to the script such as "php /home/username/path-to-the-php-script" (without the "" and replacing path-to-the-php-script with your actual path to it).

That's it, enjoy!

Regards Jason

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