NYCPHP Meetup

[Christopher R. Merlo]

On 2003-03-04 23:36 -0500, Rolan <rolan at omnistep.com> wrote:

> 1) create some shell scripts that do specifically what you want. 
> (tar/gzip up directories?)
> 2) configure sudo so that those scripts can be run as another user 
> (authorized to be executable by "nobody")
> 3) call the scripts from within php.

I have root access to the box I need to backup, and so I don't even
use sudo.  As root, I made a cron job like:
tar cfz stuff.tgz /all/my/stuff && scp stuff.tgz cmerlo at otherbox:~/backups

Nice and neat, no PHP involved.  Certainly not web configurable, but I
tend to see that as a good thing.

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