quick PHP help?

blastman · 16 Mar 2009 at 10:10

hey guys,

I have a website and I'm making daily changes to it's public_html folder.

Can any of you clever guys write me a php script to copy the contents of the public_html folder to a folder called 'backup' on the root of the server??

Ideally I'd prefer it if the script could save each day in to a different folder named after the date it was copied. Then after 3 days worth of backups delete the oldest one and redo, so there's always 3 days backup on the site.

I'll then schedule it as a cron job and get my own server to pick it up each day.

Can anyone help me?? Or is there a better way of backing up the website each day?

I have no PHP experience, so I'm lost where to start. I'm willing to have at bash at doing it myself but I'll need some help starting.

Cheers in advance

probedb · 16 Mar 2009 at 11:53

Does your hosting company not have tools to do it?

blastman · 16 Mar 2009 at 12:00

yeah but all they have is a backup wizard which you have to click on manually. (ball ache)

Dj_Jestar · 16 Mar 2009 at 12:03

ask your host for a better solution. Something like Duplicity.

da_mic_1530 · 16 Mar 2009 at 12:15

to hijack the thread

I need a PHP script that will select all images from a folder when the image name = $avariable

Having a few problems with it

Any help mucho appericiated

Dj_Jestar · 16 Mar 2009 at 12:32

http://php.net/glob

da_mic_1530 · 16 Mar 2009 at 12:43

Dj_Jestar said:
http://php.net/glob

cheers, so I can glob all the files, then pass the glob into a script that displays each image that the glob has found?

blastman · 16 Mar 2009 at 13:59

I've contacted my hosting company and asked for a automated backup program but I won't hear from them for a while.

I'll just keep doing to manually till they sort there lives out.

cheers for the replies anyway.

inph · 16 Mar 2009 at 14:17

blastman said:
I'll then schedule it as a cron job and get my own server to pick it up each day.

If your own server is downloading a copy of the site anyway each day why not just download it into differently dated directories?

Seems a bit redundant to make the webserver make a copy just for downloading.

suarve · 16 Mar 2009 at 17:44

inph said:
If your own server is downloading a copy of the site anyway each day why not just download it into differently dated directories?

Seems a bit redundant to make the webserver make a copy just for downloading.

If the files are downloaded to amore accessible location for an external script then it would be useful

gameover · 19 Mar 2009 at 13:28

set up a cron job to tar.gz them, don't need to use php then.