RE: FN-FORUM: Happy New Year, and question about backing up website data

date posted 2nd January 2007 09:35

HNY to you too :)

If any of your hosting is ona unix system you could use a CRON task (scheduled script execution) to 'zip' the entire site and email it to yourself on a weekly/monthly basis. That kind of hinges on your host allowing you to do such things though. Backing up the mysql should be doable this way too, since you'll need shell access to set the CRON up and from the shell you can use mysql commands to export the database.


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>Happy New Year to you all!,
>
>Right, I am wondering whether there is an "easy" way to back up web
>sites' data (including possibly the MySQL as well).
>I have several sites I manage for clients, not all with the same
>hosting companies, and am trying to ut down on standard FTP-ing to
>back up.
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>Many thanks,
>
>Duncan Glendinning