Web Site Backup Script
Just wondering if any of you could recommend a good Perl or PHP script to back up my web site. I have found a few by looking in the usual places (hotscipts.com, etc.), but would like to know how others back up their sites.
Thanks!
Brian Farkas posted this at 00:36 — 4th April 2001.
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Usually your host would have backups... But you should usually keep your own as well. I would recommend just keeping an active version of your web site on your home computer, you can also tar up your directory on your web server and download it to your computer.
Brian
arturo posted this at 00:42 — 4th April 2001.
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"tar up your directory on your web server and download it to your computer"
I guess that's what I would like to do, but do not yet know how. I DO have telnet access to the server, though.
arturo posted this at 00:53 — 4th April 2001.
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In searching for more information, I came up with the following:
<--begin snippet-->
Tar Zipping Archive
gtar -cvfz archive.tar.gz dir
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Do I telnet to the server and do something like this? Would this archive the whole web site?
(Thank you for your help!)
arturo posted this at 00:55 — 4th April 2001.
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Or is the following closer to what you would use to make a backup of a web site:
<--begin snippet-->
find . -name "*.[ch]" -print | zip source -@
<--end snippet>
Brian Farkas posted this at 02:12 — 4th April 2001.
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You should be able to use either the tar or gzip commands to do what you want... You can get more information such as available options and usage info by typing:
tar --help
or
gzip --help
at the command line.
Brian
arturo posted this at 02:15 — 4th April 2001.
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I will go try it right now.
Thank you.
NSS posted this at 03:16 — 4th April 2001.
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If you have experience with Unix programming and know Pico language then using Telnet shell access works fine but some Host does not provide this feature or you have to pay extra for it.
For most users to do a full backup of your site on your Host's server, I would suggest using FTP. I use it often for some of my clients' site having interactive, database, password protect directories, so should my Host have problems with their server, I just upload all my file again.
For beginners only:
1)Create a folder on your harddisk.
2)Connect to your Host server using FTP.
3)Move up to your root directory.
4)Switch your FTP to auto.
5)Highlight all the folders/directories on Host's server.
6)Make sure your folder is the right one on your harddisk.
7)Click Download/transfer button.
All files that your have on the server will be downloaded to the required folder on your harddisk.
Anonymous posted this at 23:10 — 17th April 2001.
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If you're running on Linux or other Unices, check out the utility wget (gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html) as well. It recursively traverses from a starting URL, and can pull over the user-visible portions of a site and build a backup/mirror.
Leo
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