Automating Backups

[Roman]

Is there a way to automate regular site backups similar to what was done with SQL backups here?

http://forums.dathorn.com/showthread.php?t=247

I would like someway to backup my site automatically.

[-Oz-]

What server are you on?

[Roman]

CPanel15

[-Oz-]

I think backups are made every night as is. You doing your own would probably overload the server.

[Roman]

One problem is that the backups that are made automatically are not user controlled.

The second problem is that they aren't really what I'm looking for. They are more like an attempt at disaster recovery/fault tolerance. The new backup system does better with this, but still only offers a single point in time restore model.

I'm looking for the ability to automatically download and save weekly or monthly backups so that I have the ability to restore a file from several weeks or months ago.

[openbox]

You could probably work some cron magic and tar files and have the ftp or scp to where you want them to go. There is no "one-click" option that I know of, but something could be hobbled together.

[Eric]

I use a script I wrote for that. You can check out more details by clicking here.

Eric

[Roman]

Wow, that sounds nice Eric. I was hoping for something free. But this sounds like a very nice tool and the price isn't too bad.

I'll e-mail you about it.