Comments on: Simple FTP Backup Script 0.9b Released

By: Marc J

Marc J — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:29:56 +0000

Occassionally the FTP connect / login / upload fails (problem at the receiving end, not the script) and when this happens the backup file is left on the server (even if $delete_backup = 1).

As these backups are quite large it only takes a few failures in a row to hit the account disk quota. Is there any way of deleting the local backup file on error as well?

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:48:14 +0000

@dennis: of course, I am referring to the 2 backup files.

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:47:52 +0000

@dennis: What are the file names and in which directory are they?

By: dennis

dennis — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:46:02 +0000

goodmorning,

when i edit the $directory to backup with the string /home/[user]/domains/[domainname]/public_html (which contains 47 MB), i still get two backup files from 980 MB. why is this?

Greetings, Dennis, The Netherlands

By: MaxEmil

MaxEmil — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:43:07 +0000

Great script, thanks!

An easy googlesearch for “tar exclude” gives an answer
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/739467.html for how to exclude several directories.
By defining several –exclude
or by using an exclude file.

BR\ME

By: Marc J

Marc J — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:48 +0000

@james: Unix timestamp for months runs from 0 – 11: -

Jan = 0
.
..
..
Dec = 11

By: james

james — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:39:32 +0000

noticed also the date stamp is a month behind on mine, as my backup today came up as 2-10-2009.

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:16:23 +0000

@Steve: the issue is not really the size of the file, it’s rather about the amount of memory allowed for PHP scripts to run or the maximum execution time.

These settings are set by your web host. Who are you hosting with?

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:59:36 +0000

Just found your script and if it works it will be great just one question before trying. Is there a limit on the size of the backup as doing a backup within cpanel I get the message unable to complete backup due to the file being to big

By: Marc J

Marc J — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:18:59 +0000

One more request (sorry!).

Would it be possible to add folders to exlude from the file backup? It seems the backup dir is already excluded (I’m assuming to prevent the backup possibly including itself), but I have a rather large folder within the backup dit that I do not need to backup, and doing so is wasting a lot of bandwidth every time I FTP it off-site.

Ideally, the option to define a list of excluded folders, if there are more than one…then the script WOULD be perfect