Thanks yeah I realized that sorry I wasted your time. NOw I ahve a different error here is my command
php /home/tournam4/cpanel_backup.php—

The server was not able to find the document
(./frontend/x3/backup/dofullbackup.html) you requested.
Please check the url and try again. You might also want to report this
error to your webhost.

Hi Vanessa,

Any blog with drinking games is OK by me. And yes your programming is sexy.

Speaking of which, we have an account with inmotion and I’m trying to get this backup script to run. I have the backup file in /etc and the cron job command path is php -q /etc/cpanel_backup.php. I’m getting the no file for input message, so my path must be wrong. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, and for taking the time to write this.

Thanks very much for your reply.

I’m trying to run this backup script too but from the browser first just to make sure it’s working – then I’ll cron it – but for now I’m getting this error:
The server was not able to find the document (./frontend/x3/backup/dofullbackup.html) you requested

Any idea’s on how to fix this?

This errors when I try to test it from the browser – it deletes .tar.gz files older than 3 days but I can’t figure out why it does not like the wild card *.tar.gz. I have the -rm file remmed out so it won’t hurt anything. Does anyone know the correct syntax for wild cards? so *.tar.gz will work?

#!/usr/bin/php
$v)
{
$actual_difference = strtotime(date(“Y-m-d”)) – strtotime(date(“Y-m-d”, filectime($app_dir.$save_dir . $v)));
//print filectime($app_dir.$save_dir . $v).”;
if (is_file($app_dir.$save_dir . $v) && ($allowed_difference < $actual_difference))
{
//exec(“rm -f $app_dir$save_dir$v”);
print “Removed file $app_dir$v”;
}
else
{
print “Did not remove file $app_dir$v”;
}
}
}
?>

The code won’t post correctly – let me strip out the PHP tags:

#!/usr/bin/php
$app_dir = “/home/juicyco/*.tar.gz”;
$store_len = 3; // delete files older than 3 days from today

if ($store_len)
{
exec(“ls $app_dir”,$test_files);
$allowed_difference = 86400 * ($store_len – 1);
foreach ($test_files as $k=>$v)
{
$actual_difference = strtotime(date(“Y-m-d”)) – strtotime(date(“Y-m-d”, filectime($app_dir.$save_dir . $v)));
//print filectime($app_dir.$save_dir . $v).”;
if (is_file($app_dir.$save_dir . $v) && ($allowed_difference < $actual_difference))
{
//exec(“rm -f $app_dir$save_dir$v”);
print “Removed file $app_dir$v”;
}
else
{
print “Did not remove file $app_dir$v”;
}
}
}

Hello,

Thanks for the script. Everything seems to work exept one thing. The backup file it doesnt moved to the backup folder i created which the script is inside, but it stays in the home /username folder for some reason.

I read the previus posts but i didnt found anything to solve it.
I use cpanel 11 x3.

Does anyone has an idea on this?
Thanks

I am having some problems running the backup to a remote ftp server. This script work perfectly fine locally. I use the same data but of course change the FTP host information and it give me this error:

Net::FTP=GLOB(0×8d48ca4)<<>> PASV
Net::FTP=GLOB(0×8d48ca4)<<>> STOR backup-12.17.2008_21-30-03_virtualc.tar.gz
Net::FTP=GLOB(0×8d48ca4)<<>> QUIT
Net::FTP=GLOB(0×8d48ca4)<<< 421 Connection timed out..

Thanks nessa. the issue was resolved. It was the configuration on the firewall and how the passive ports are supposed to be configured on the FTP server. Thanls! this is a great tool.

Hello.

I’m using this script to automatically perform full cPanel backups via cron job. It works quite nicely. However, space will become an issue real quick with these daily backups dumping into my root. I’m not using the ftp option to move them elsewhere at this time.

I would like to set up a cron job in cPanel to automatically delete all cPanel backups that are 3 days old or older.

Is this the correct command to do so or am I completely off base? If so, what is the correct command to work on cPanel 11 over Linux?

find /home/user/backup-* -mtime +3 -exec rm {}\;

The typical full backup reads like this /home/user/backup-2.4.2009_18-11-01_user.tar.gz I’m assuming the backup-* wildcard is correct usage as well.

I would greatly appreciate it someone could point me in the write direction. As this would be the icing on the cake.

Thanks.

Hi Vanessa, really good script indeed, I just tryed and it’s still running so I don’t know if this is really an issue or not but the tar.gz file does not increase in size, it’s 4ko since the beginning and doesn’t change… Is it normal?

Also, as I understand the FTP informations are for an external FTP to send the backup after right? Where will it be on the disk?

Anyway thanks a lot for the job you did (and still do?)!!

Hi Vanessa!

Great script – it worked perfectly for me! I just modified the variables and set it as a cron job and it worked flawlessly.

Only problem is, like the others who have posted, is how to delete the old backups automatically as I would like to do daily backups and store x number of backups.

I really appreciate your time in making this script.

- Chris

Hi V,
Thanks for the cool script! I’ve managed to create a whole new service based on this script so people can easily backup their site without having to tweak their own script and setup cron jobs.

I’ve set it up at http://www.cPanelAutoBackups.Com

Please let me know what you think!