Comments on: How to Backup your Website Automatically with cPanel

By: dalinex

dalinex — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:35:20 +0000

This cant be right. There is such an obvious error in the code.

# DELETING FULL SITE BACKUP
if($delete_backup = 1)
{
unlink($full_backup_file);
}

should be

# DELETING FULL SITE BACKUP
if($delete_backup == 1)
{
unlink($full_backup_file);
}

Plus the FTP part doesnt work. I know i have the correct FTP user and password set yet it keeps telling me

tar: Removing leading `/’ from member names Cannot login Login incorrect.

By: Arik

Arik — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:40:16 +0000

I’ve got the same error:
tar: Removing leading `/’ from member names
tar: Removing leading `/’ from member names

but it’s work perfectly for me.

By: Mk1586

Mk1586 — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:25:17 +0000

I installed this script and ran it. The cron shows the following errors.

Found = in conditional, should be == at /home/site/public_html/cgi-bin/ftp-backup-script.pl line 96.
tar: Removing leading `/’ from member names
tar: /home/site/dailybackups/site_backup-24-11-2011.tar.gz: file changed as we read it
tar: Removing leading `/’ from member names Cannot login Login incorrect.

Any idea what these error mean exactly?

By: Arik

Arik — Tue, 24 May 2011 20:15:18 +0000

My site was attacked by hackers, and the whole public_html structure was corupted. My JustHost plan has only weekly backup without historys, and I don’t want to pay more. So I’ve found that fantastic article that finely allowed me to configure backups by my own, without any charge from the host provider.
I’m using it to save weekly backups on a defferent folder on host.
Thanks alot!!!

By: The Coupon Mole

The Coupon Mole — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:51:59 +0000

I just had a database crash for the first time. Luckily it wasn’t that important and I was able to repair it. But, its sort of like when your hard drive first crashes without a recent backup. You then backup everyday! Thanks, was looking to set this up.

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By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:16:59 +0000

@Tony : if there are some foreign key constraints, you’ll have to add this line manually at the beginning of the SQL dump file :

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;

And also add this line at the very end of the same file :

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;

Hope this helps.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:07:08 +0000

Will this back/restore also work if Innodb is place?

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:08:51 +0000

Do you have an idea what is the approximate size of your website?

By: eric

eric — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:29:45 +0000

I tried to ftp the full bakcup file, form hostmonster to drivehq, but even with time out of 300 it’s still getting time out, what should the problem be..?