usefull,3ks

Is there a simple tweak for one of scanman's scripts that will allow me to zip just one subdirectory in my public_html directory and have it emailed to me?

I'm not talking about database backups ... have that working already courtesy of scanman. 

Most of my site is static so I don't need to / want to back all of it up repeatedly via ftp over my slow connection ... i just want to send copies of the folders with changing information to my email.

I know this is similar to the post from mefromla but i didn't see a reply and i'm also curious about the emailing part.

many thanks!

If your cron job is truly /home/theco55/public_html/backup.php then you're missing the php command in front of it.

Proper one? That works? For free? Instructions and codes?

Did you even read this thread? Start at the beginning. The code is free, works, and is spelled out for you.

Thanks for the scripts Scanman. I think it would be more secure to put the backup.php script file in a directory other than public_html. I came across another script which stated: "For security’s sake, it is very important that you make sure this file is located outside your document root (public_html) with permissions of 600." See:

http://www.v-nessa.net/2007/01/03/cpanel-automated-backup-script

I am trying to get the Scanman site FTP script to generate a full site backup in my home/username director--so far with no luck (the db email script works fine).

I use the following cronjob: php -q /home/username/site_backup.php.

Can anyone see anything obviously wrong in the following configuration of the script which is saved in a file named site_backup.php and placed in my home/username directory? It has the CHMOD: 600--this works for the database email script which is in the same directory.

/* CONFIGURE THE FOLLOWING VARIABLES TO MATCH YOUR SETUP */
$filename= "home/username/Full_Account_Backup-$datestamp.tar";   // The name (and optionally path) of the dump file
$ftp_server = "mydomain.org";      // Name or IP. Shouldn't have any trailing slashes and shouldn't be prefixed with ftp://
$ftp_port = "21";   // FTP port - blank defaults to port 21
$ftp_username = "ftp username";      // FTP account username
$ftp_password = "ftp password";      // FTP account password - blank for anonymous
$filename = "home/ftp username/" . $filename . ".gz";

$command = "tar cvf ~/$filename ~/*";
$result = exec($command);

$command = "gzip -9 -S .gz ~/$filename";
$result = exec($command);

// set up basic connection
$ftp_conn = ftp_connect($ftp_server);

// Turn PASV mode on or off

ftp_pasv($ftp_conn, false);

// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($ftp_conn, $ftp_username, $ftp_password);

// check connection
if ((!$ftp_conn) || (!$login_result))
{
   echo "FTP connection has failed.";
   echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_username";
   exit;
}
else
{
   echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_username";
}

// upload the file
$upload = ftp_put($ftp_conn, "foo.tar.gz", $filename, FTP_BINARY);

// check upload status
if (!$upload)
{
   echo "FTP upload has failed.";
}
else
{
   echo "Uploaded $filename to $ftp_server.";
}

// close the FTP stream
ftp_close($ftp_conn);

unlink($filename);   //delete the backup file from the server
?>


This is the error e-mail message I get:

tar: /home/ftp username/home/ftp username/home/ftp username/Full_Account_Backup-2008-06-09_03-00-03.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
gzip: /home//home/ftp username/home/ftp username/Full_Account_Backup-2008-06-09_03-00-03.tar.gz: No such file or directory
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  ftp_login() [<a href='function.ftp-login'>function.ftp-login</a>]: Login authentication failed in <b>/home/ftp username/site_backup.php</b> on line <b>26</b><br />
FTP connection has failed.Attempted to connect to mydomain.org for user ftp username