Automate backup

[szimnau]

I was wondering if someone could reccomend a good way to backup my website? The Cpanel backup works fine, and I have done that once, but I was wondering if there's a way to automate a backup nightly/weekly with Cron or something?

Ideally, here's what I'd like to happen:

Set a time to backup

Backup EVERYTHING including MySql databases + subdomain settings

GZIP all files

Transfer backup to my host FTP server

Locally rotate backups (delete old one, replace with new backup)

hope that someone can help.
Regards

Rolf

 

[nobaloney]

Are you writing about CPanel or about DirectAdmin? This is a forum for DirectAdmin, not for CPanel.

Jeff

 

[szimnau]

The company that hosts my sites uses directadmin v1.22.6.

Am i then at the right place?

Regards
Rolf

 

[nobaloney]

Yes, but you wrote:

The Cpanel backup works fine

so I wasn't sure what you meant.

A user backup can't be run in a cron job. Your hosting company may be able to set up a cron job to backup your site for you on a regular basis, as DA gives them the tools to do so.

If so, they may charge you for that service.

And they'd be responsible for restoring it.

Jeff

 

[szimnau]

thanks for you quick response. And sorry for the misleading text.