lol basically gona backup the entire thing every sunday at 3am... script creates a .SQL.GZ backup of the database on the host, then all contents are backed up...

need to do it so it actually compares file sizes of each file before downloading, otherwise will overwrite everything each time which tbh I only want it to get modified / updated files...

elite, though your plan for backups sounds pretty smacky, good luck!

cheers willay :thumbs: it really was a case of chmod +x the file!

i cant do any cron jobs on the server, as its not enabled on the hosting plan

think it didnt work as I was forgetting to chmod +x the file...

testing now

btw - have you considered doing this on the server where the website is hosted? you could do a dirty script to call up tar and make the archive with the date in the filename, then use ftp/scp to transfer the file over to your backup location.

also do a whereis wget and get the full path name to wget, then put this into the script as crontab may not be using the same enviromentials as your shell.

try:

code:


#!/bin/sh

#script to do paulz shit

wget http://blah/backup.php

wget ftp://blah/poo/ --ftp-user=weee --ftp-password=donk  -m -nH

have added commands into /etc/cron_dome.sh

tried adding this to cron...

00 03 * * 0 root sh /etc/cron_dome.sh

but doesnt work :boggle:

tested by making the cron as

50 * * * root sh /etc/cron_dome.sh

so it ran at 10 to 6, but nothing... also restarted cron after updating crontab

Write a script that executes those commands, and set the Cron to run the script?

also... would this overwrite all existing files with any newer ones & leave all unaltered files intact, or would it not overwrite any files?? as I would of assumed the -m command for wget litterally will 'mirror' the sites contents...

code:
wget http://blah/backup.php

wget ftp://blah/poo/ --ftp-user=weee --ftp-password=donk  -m -nH