Backup Of A Directory But Not A Subdirectory?

[papillon]

hi, i would like to be able to create a backup of all the contents of a directory except one subdir. (that subdir is more than 1gb and doesnt change, so i dont want it downloaded with every backup...) is there any way to do it? maybe modifiying the script from the backup faq or something?

thanks

[TCH-Bala]

Is there any particular reason for this backup setup. I am asking you this because all our shared / reseller servers are having multiple backups by default

 

1) Weekly backup to a secondary disk which can be accessed via the "Backups" option on your cPanel

 

2) offline backups to our backup server, once every 12 hours with 7 iterations = 14 backup snapshots which can be accessed via "R1soft" link on cPanel.

[papillon]

ops, somehow i forgot about this post, sorry...

 

the reason is i would like to have periodical local backups on my pc. the problem is, 90% of the size of my site reside in a specific sub-subfolder. but this 90% rarely changes over time. the other 10%, though, may be changed frecuently. so i hoped to be able to make local backups in my pc every week, for example, for that 10%, BUT every six months for the 90%. this way reducing downloading times etc.

 

also i have had problems when trying to download the weekly full backup from cpanel (takes long time and sometimes i end up getting a broken compressed file).

the option in cpanel to restore last-week backups would be great for what i want, except i cannot download it, only restore (as far as i know)

 

thanks,

[TCH-Bruce]

Take a look at the second post in our Backup FAQ for a script to backup a specific subdirectory.

[papillon]

Take a look at the second post in our Backup FAQ for a script to backup a specific subdirectory.

 

thanks!,

thats perfect to backup the big folder.

 

a last question:

any idea how to modify a copy of the script to do a backup of more than one folder in the same gzip? so if my site consist of:

-public_html

- folder a

- folder b

- big folder

- folder c

 

i would like to do a backup of folders a, b and c in the same gzip?

 

 

thanks

[TCH-Thomas]

I haven´t used the script that Bruce and Andy made, only the dbsender script that Bruce talks about in the first post.

However, while it won´t backup everything in one zip file, I think you could copy paste that script to multiple php files (calling them folder_a.php, folder_b.php and so on) and modify the lines in each php file:

 

$path= '/home/your-account/public_html/'; // Full path to backup

$zippath = "/home/your-account/backups"; // path to save backup file

 

While I see it can be handy to have everything in one big file, I also see it being handy having separate backups, if only one or two folders needs to be restored it sounds to me it will be faster

[papillon]

ok will do it that way

thanks all

[TCH-Bruce]

Agree with Thomas here. Create multiple scripts, one for each folder.

[papillon]

its me again... im having problems when trying to use the per-folder script...

 

i have configured the script, created a cronjob to run it, and it works perfectly when configured to backup a small folder (the compressed file is generated, then send to the remote ftp server, then deleted from origin).

but when i try it with a bigger folder, apparently it generates the compressed file ok (it takes about 5 minutes for 1gb compressed file), but theres an error when trying to send it to the remote server. i receive a cron job error email, and in the same folder i get an error_log file with the same info.

 

the temporal compressed file is created aparently ok, and is not deleted nor send to the remote ftp server.

any ideas? should i create a ticket for this?

[TCH-Bruce]

Yes, check with the help desk.