Suggestions for automated site backup

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by JustWorth, Apr 7, 2008.

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    Hi

    I run a few sites on shared hosting (Cpanel based mostly, a few directadmin), multiple shared hosts.

    Would like to automate the backup process - have a complete site backup including the databases backed up on a weekly / monthly basis.

    Looking for suggestions of scripts / products that can do this for me; free or low cost (Less than $100 one time cost).

    thanks
     
    JustWorth, Apr 7, 2008 IP
  2. jtpratt

    jtpratt Well-Known Member

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    what are you running? If you're using Wordpress there are some plugins that will auto-backup for you, a lot of other blogging platforms have something for that too. Are you running blogging software, a CMS, or something else?
     
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    the_wanderer Peon

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    The easy way is to use cron and rsync with ssh keys.

    You can easily create a daily backup job that will rsync whatver you like to a remote server. Databases should be dumped first (this can also be done with cron or a shell script).

    Google rsync and backup.

    As long as you have access to another server via ssh this can be accomplished quite easily. And its FREE. :D
     
    the_wanderer, Apr 8, 2008 IP
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    Some Wordpress, a couple of article sites (article dashboard), PHPLD, some plain HTML...

    I'm not a techie, rsync and cron scare me off :) - would prefer either a webscript or a desktop software that I can use to automate this...
     
    JustWorth, Apr 8, 2008 IP