how to backup just one folder on an hourly basis using the crontab option

[greentea]

Hi,

We need some programming help on how to backup one of our folders and all of its sub-folders and files within the public_html folder, e.g. /public_html/data and store it on a new folder called /public_html/databackup on an hourly basis using the crontab option.

We cannot use DA's backup option for our purpose because it will backup everything in the public_html folder, which is not what we want, and there is no option to achieve what we want.

Thank you in advance.

 

[jmstacey]

You could upload a shell script to your server and use the same commands that you would logged in via ssh. Tar the directory recursively and move it to a location of your choice.
Then you would just have your cronjob execute this script as often as you wanted.