Complete back-up script

[al0000]

Hello,

I have a dedicated server running Plesk 7.5.3.

I'm looking for a good backup solution for my websites/databases.

The backup feature of Plesk is a real mess (i tried backing up, and it destroyed my hosting setup).

I heard you can have good backups using cronjobs. I really don't know much about Linux (just enough to setup my websites).

How can i make a cronjob script?

I basicaly want the entire httpdocs folder, and the database, sent to a FTP server (myhost offers backup solutions using FTP).

Is that even possible?

Anyone could help me do that cronjob? That would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Alex

 

[AFTDESIGN]

I need exactly the same thing.

I have 75+ domains on my server that I need to backup.

My server is running Fedora Core 2 with Plesk 7.5.4.

I need to backup the OS weekly and the websites, e-mail, & databases daily.

I only have FTP access to the backup server. Bandwidth to and from the backup server is UNLIMITED.


If anyone could help I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!


Andrew

 

[JLChafardet]

well psadump does really a good job if it is used correctly.

i do daily backups onsite and weekly backups offsite, what i do is this.

a bash shell script croned to run every day (monday-saturday) and another on sunday.

dialy:
backuper.sh
#!/bin/bash
rUTAD="/backups"
fILE="backup_server"
service psa stop1
/usr/local/psa/bin/psadump -f $rUTAD/$fILE --nostop --nostop-domain --force
/usr/local/psa/bin/psarestore -f $rUTAD/$fILE -t -m $rUTAD/$fILE.ipmap -s $rUTAD/$fILE.shellmap
/usr/local/psa/bin/psarestore -f $rUTAD/$fILE -t -m $rUTAD/$fILE.ipmap -s $rUTAD/$fILE.shellmap
service psa start1
exit 0

weekly does the same but has a ncftpput line to upload to a remote server.

 

[sieb@]

I have a script posted in this forum you should search for.