Comments on: I Bet You Don’t Have Any Backup of Your Website!

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:33:01 +0000

Cron jobs are allowed on cPanel web hosts most of the time but it’s not the case with Plesk.

By: Dimas

Dimas — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:51:54 +0000

Ok. But assumed the user is allowed to do cron jobs. On the other Hand, my customers can ask me all the time to provide theier backups in case of crash or they did not backups. But when user are allowed to set cron jobs, your script does good job.

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:47:13 +0000

@Dimas: you can schedule backups if you have access to WHM but if you’re using shared hosting, you need to do backup manually.

The script I did is made to run automatically from a cron task.

By: Dimas

Dimas — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:40:59 +0000

Why building a backupscript when cpanel is doing that automatically.
And yes, you are able to open this *.tar.gz’s. And yes, all databases per user are backuped as well. So you only need to put this backups to your chosen ftp-server.

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