Comments on: How To Automate Your Web Server Backups http://www.wilsonmattos.com/how-to-automate-your-web-server-backups Making Technology Simple Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:06:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: BrenFM http://www.wilsonmattos.com/how-to-automate-your-web-server-backups#comment-357 BrenFM Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:06:20 +0000 http://www.wilsonmattos.com/?p=3#comment-357 Hi will! Thanks for the tutorial. I had some issues getting this going too - a whole bunch of copy and paste issues on my part, so thought I'd share with the group! I needed to make sure I was using the correct - characters. When opening in a text editor I discovered half of them were the long hyphens, not the simple minus sign. Working a treat now, thanks again! Hi will!

Thanks for the tutorial. I had some issues getting this going too – a whole bunch of copy and paste issues on my part, so thought I’d share with the group!

I needed to make sure I was using the correct – characters. When opening in a text editor I discovered half of them were the long hyphens, not the simple minus sign. Working a treat now, thanks again!

]]> By: Jane http://www.wilsonmattos.com/how-to-automate-your-web-server-backups#comment-329 Jane Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:20:26 +0000 http://www.wilsonmattos.com/?p=3#comment-329 Paul, thank you so much for this information. I had contacted Hostgator a couple times about this issue and they were never able to tell me anything other than, "the cron looks fine" & "the script looks fine" One thing to note is the the text copied from the site here doesn't work, it includes invalid asci characters. I noticed when trying to update the script that when I saved it it kept defaulting the encoding to "UTF-8", I was finally able to get it to save as asci and now it's working again. Thank you for taking the time to post your solution! Paul, thank you so much for this information. I had contacted Hostgator a couple times about this issue and they were never able to tell me anything other than, “the cron looks fine” & “the script looks fine”

One thing to note is the the text copied from the site here doesn’t work, it includes invalid asci characters. I noticed when trying to update the script that when I saved it it kept defaulting the encoding to “UTF-8″, I was finally able to get it to save as asci and now it’s working again.

Thank you for taking the time to post your solution!

]]> By: Bonnie Gean http://www.wilsonmattos.com/how-to-automate-your-web-server-backups#comment-320 Bonnie Gean Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:45:34 +0000 http://www.wilsonmattos.com/?p=3#comment-320 Hi Wil, I copied and pasted the tags you have above and created my backup file. The only problem is -- Auto FTP Manager -- found 2 *.gz files on my hostgator account, copied them, and then deleted them. These files were: sitemap.xml.gz from my /public_html/ directory and wp-tinymce.js from my /wp-includes/js/tinymce/ directory LOL, yet it didn't touch the backup*.gz file that is residing outside the /public_html/ directory. How do I fix this? As I followed your instructions to the "T". Thanks for your help! -- Bonnie Hi Wil,

I copied and pasted the tags you have above and created my backup file.

The only problem is — Auto FTP Manager — found 2 *.gz files on my hostgator account, copied them, and then deleted them. These files were:

sitemap.xml.gz from my /public_html/ directory and
wp-tinymce.js from my /wp-includes/js/tinymce/ directory

LOL, yet it didn’t touch the backup*.gz file that is residing outside the /public_html/ directory.

How do I fix this? As I followed your instructions to the “T”.

Thanks for your help!

– Bonnie

]]> By: Paul http://www.wilsonmattos.com/how-to-automate-your-web-server-backups#comment-195 Paul Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:17:48 +0000 http://www.wilsonmattos.com/?p=3#comment-195 Hey Jane Had the same problem. - 2 of my Hostgator hosting accounts worked perfectly. - 1 stopped working in about October Finally got a chance to look at it last week. Just got this response from Hostgator Support. ------------------- I am convinced (wget believer here). I apologize for the delay. I have your script working again. For your script I had to add --auth-no-challenge like so: wget -O /dev/null -q --auth-no-challenge --http-user=$1 --http-password=$2 http://localhost:2082/frontend/x3/backup/dofullbackup.html --post-data="dest=homedir&email=$3" The full backups appear to be running successfully. You may want to add that parameter to your others so that they don't suddenly stop at some point. I don't know what is different about this particular server. It could be some cPanel updates or something. If you need anything else just let us know. We are here to help. Best regards, Richard B Linux Systems Administrator HostGator.com LLC http://support.hostgator.com ------------------------------------------- Hope that helps. Paul Hey Jane

Had the same problem.
- 2 of my Hostgator hosting accounts worked perfectly.
- 1 stopped working in about October

Finally got a chance to look at it last week. Just got this response from Hostgator Support.

——————-
I am convinced (wget believer here). I apologize for the delay. I have your script working again. For your script I had to add –auth-no-challenge like so:

wget -O /dev/null -q –auth-no-challenge –http-user=$1 –http-password=$2 http://localhost:2082/frontend/x3/backup/dofullbackup.html –post-data=”dest=homedir&email=$3″

The full backups appear to be running successfully. You may want to add that parameter to your others so that they don’t suddenly stop at some point. I don’t know what is different about this particular server. It could be some cPanel updates or something.

If you need anything else just let us know. We are here to help.

Best regards,

Richard B
Linux Systems Administrator
HostGator.com LLC
http://support.hostgator.com

——————————————-

Hope that helps.
Paul

]]> By: jwitt98 http://www.wilsonmattos.com/how-to-automate-your-web-server-backups#comment-192 jwitt98 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:58:42 +0000 http://www.wilsonmattos.com/?p=3#comment-192 I tried this method on Hostgator and also could not get it to work. After some investigation, I found that the newer version of cPanel does not allow http authentication and therefore this method would not work since it relies on http authentication. Is there any workaround that uses POST to authenticate? I tried using --keep-session-cookies and --save-cookies cookies.txt, but I'm not versed enough in Linux commands to make it work. I tried this method on Hostgator and also could not get it to work. After some investigation, I found that the newer version of cPanel does not allow http authentication and therefore this method would not work since it relies on http authentication. Is there any workaround that uses POST to authenticate?
I tried using –keep-session-cookies and –save-cookies cookies.txt, but I’m not versed enough in Linux commands to make it work.

]]> By: Jane http://www.wilsonmattos.com/how-to-automate-your-web-server-backups#comment-41 Jane Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:11:12 +0000 http://www.wilsonmattos.com/?p=3#comment-41 Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I used this script to setup automatic backups for a site I manage, however, something has stopped working. The last automatic backup I received was November 16th. I use hostgator as well (shared hosting) and out of the blue, I just quit receiving backups. I checked with support & they say that Cron appears to be working fine, and they say the backup.sh looks fine (I didn't change anything) So I'm wondering if something got changed by hostgator that would cause the backup.sh to become ineffective. I did try changing the permissions to 755 but that didn't seem to help. I'd appreciate any advise you could give me to get this working again. Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I used this script to setup automatic backups for a site I manage, however, something has stopped working. The last automatic backup I received was November 16th. I use hostgator as well (shared hosting) and out of the blue, I just quit receiving backups. I checked with support & they say that Cron appears to be working fine, and they say the backup.sh looks fine (I didn’t change anything) So I’m wondering if something got changed by hostgator that would cause the backup.sh to become ineffective. I did try changing the permissions to 755 but that didn’t seem to help. I’d appreciate any advise you could give me to get this working again.

]]> By: Wilson Mattos http://www.wilsonmattos.com/how-to-automate-your-web-server-backups#comment-40 Wilson Mattos Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:56:07 +0000 http://www.wilsonmattos.com/?p=3#comment-40 Joseph, you would have to write a script to do this. If you are looking to backup WordPress sites, then check out <a href="http://wptwin.net" rel="nofollow">WP Twin</a>, which makes it super simple. Joseph, you would have to write a script to do this. If you are looking to backup WordPress sites, then check out WP Twin, which makes it super simple.

]]> By: JosephA http://www.wilsonmattos.com/how-to-automate-your-web-server-backups#comment-39 JosephA Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:55:24 +0000 http://www.wilsonmattos.com/?p=3#comment-39 We are using Crucial hosting, they use cpanel but they have turned off the full backup feature. Can you help by providing similar instructions on how to backup a home directory and the individual databases. That would be alot of help! Thanks We are using Crucial hosting, they use cpanel but they have turned off the full backup feature. Can you help by providing similar instructions on how to backup a home directory and the individual databases.
That would be alot of help!

Thanks

]]> By: Roger Due http://www.wilsonmattos.com/how-to-automate-your-web-server-backups#comment-38 Roger Due Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:46:44 +0000 http://www.wilsonmattos.com/?p=3#comment-38 Wilson, This is amazing! I listened to your webinar on 7/7/10 hosted by James J Jones and purchased your Easy Redirect Script and have it configured on a new domain I purchased based upon your webinar advice. Then I started poking around to see what else you have and found S3FlowShield and then Auto FTP Manager! Then I read the above comments and found some additional info on backing up to Amazon S3. I am building websites for myself as well as customers and all of this is very useful. There is always the question of how to systematically do backups and it looks like I now have some good approaches to use. -- Thanks, Roger Wilson,
This is amazing! I listened to your webinar on 7/7/10 hosted by James J Jones and purchased your Easy Redirect Script and have it configured on a new domain I purchased based upon your webinar advice.

Then I started poking around to see what else you have and found S3FlowShield and then Auto FTP Manager! Then I read the above comments and found some additional info on backing up to Amazon S3.

I am building websites for myself as well as customers and all of this is very useful. There is always the question of how to systematically do backups and it looks like I now have some good approaches to use.
– Thanks, Roger

]]> By: Wilson Mattos http://www.wilsonmattos.com/how-to-automate-your-web-server-backups#comment-37 Wilson Mattos Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:17:57 +0000 http://www.wilsonmattos.com/?p=3#comment-37 Flavius, Yes, if you ask the admins at Hostgator, they should be able to restore the backup for you. Their helpdesk is really good! Wil Flavius,

Yes, if you ask the admins at Hostgator, they should be able to restore the backup for you. Their helpdesk is really good!

Wil

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