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[Matt Thomas]

For anyone who is interested, you can also set up S3 tools (
http://s3tools.org/s3cmd) to securely upload these backups to Amazon S3. I
can dig up an example script if you're interested.

Best,

Matt Thomas
Founder betweenbrain <http://betweenbrain.com/>™
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Janet Sullivan <jmsullivan50 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Geoffrey:
>
>  Thanks for sharing this.  I do manually do cpanel backups for all my
> clients and always assumed
> that there was a way to set up a cron job, but never had time to look into
> it.
>
> This is great, thanks!
> Janet
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Geoffrey Schaller <gjschaller at psi-13.com>
> *To:* NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 25, 2012 3:49 PM
> *Subject:* [joomla] Two useful links for backing up your cPanel site
>
> This isn't directly related to Joomla, but is handy for anyone who wants
> to do an automated backup of their server / site / cPanel account.
>
> The first is a command / script that runs a complete backup of your cPanel
> account, and sends it to a remote location.  While working with a cPanel
> dump is not pretty / fun, it's good to have in case something happens to
> your hosting provider, and they lose your account / shut down / etc. (i.e.
> - you can't trust them, and you need to restore to another provider from a
> recent backup).  NOT ALL PROVIDERS enable the backup function - BlueHost
> does not, for example - since it makes it easy to migrate away from them.
>  Check with your hosting provider to see if they allow full cPanel backups.
>  I run this once a week for each cPanel account, and have it FTP the files
> down to a storage device at my home (since it's "off-site" for my host, and
> they are all personal sites).
>
>
> http://www.justin-cook.com/wp/2006/12/27/automatic-cpanel-backup-domain-mysql-with-cron-php/
>
>
> +++
>
> The second is a script that dumps a copy of your mySQL databases, and
> sends them to a remote location (email, FTP, etc.).  It will even clean up
> after itself, so you only keep the past 4 days, etc.  This one, I run
> nightly, and it FTPs the files to my storage device at home again.  If I
> need to do a restore, the worst I lose is 24 hours worth of content.
>
>
> http://www.ameir.net/blog/archives/48-MySQL-Backup-to-FTP-and-Email-Shell-Script-for-Cron-v2.2.html
>
>
> +++
>
> For my home storage solution, I use a ReadyNAS <http://www.readynas.com/>device - they come in home use models, as well as professional models that
> mount in a rack in a datacenter.  They're designed to just store a large
> amount of data in a very friendly way, and serve it up with several methods
> (local network browsing, FTP, Web Interface, etc.).
>
> --
> Geoffrey Schaller
> gjschaller at psi-13.com
>
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