Hosting package: SDX back ups

[darkwolf]

hi all
could somebody please tell me which is the best way to back up my site with this package
Hosting package: SDX
can i have a daily site back with this package?
the best way to do
thanks in advance

[Vin DSL]

There are two things I do...

One requires your own install of phpMyAdmin, and the other requires WinSCP/PuTTY (WinSCP is built on top of PuTTY).

All you have to do (Part 1) is backup your sql dbs using phpMyAdmin, and download them to your local machine.

Then, use WinSCP to TAR the rest of your site[s] - and download that to your local machine.

That's it!

Ppl like Dogman like to mirror their site[s] using WinSCP, but my sites are too big - require a day or two to mirror - so if you got a fleabag site, like he does, just mirror it. Otherwise, TAR it using BZ2 and download it. This takes about an hour or two, for my setup.

So, let's stop there and see if you know what the hell I'm talking about... and we'll go from there.

[Ron]

JAG has a backup service designed to handle daily backups.

see: http://www.jaguarpc.com/services/backups.php

[Vin DSL]

BTW, here's an example of the command I use to back up my account...

This is the base command - will backup EVERYTHING - and TAR it with BZ2

tar -cvpjf Lenon.com_`date +%m-%d-%y`_Backup.tbz /home/example

However, I don't NEED everything, like cache files, so I exclude a LOT of stuff to save time, like

--exclude=/home/example/*.tbz
--exclude=/home/example/.trash
--exclude=/home/example/etc-bkp
--exclude=/home/example/mail-bkp
--exclude=/home/example/public_html_old
--exclude=/home/example/g2data/cache
--exclude=/home/example/public_html/e107/e107_files/cache
--exclude=/home/example/public_html/info/wp-content/cache
--exclude=/home/example/public_html/joomla/cache
--exclude=/home/example/tmp/analog/cache
--exclude=/home/example/tmp/webalizer/dns_cache.db
--exclude=/home/example/www

... yada, yada, yada!

You'll have to design the exclusions for your own situation - or not. They aren't necessary...

Anyway, I end up with a command like this (used in a PuTTY CLI window in WinSCP)

tar -cvpjf Lenon.com_`date +%m-%d-%y`_Backup.tbz /home/example --exclude=/home/example/*.tbz --exclude=/home/example/.trash --exclude=/home/example/etc-bkp --exclude=/home/example/mail-bkp --exclude=/home/example/public_html_old --exclude=/home/example/g2data/cache --exclude=/home/example/public_html/e107/e107_files/cache --exclude=/home/example/public_html/info/wp-content/cache --exclude=/home/example/public_html/joomla/cache --exclude=/home/example/public_html/modules/ODP/cache --exclude=/home/example/public_html/pilot/modules/ODP/cache --exclude=/home/example/tmp/analog/cache --exclude=/home/example/tmp/webalizer/dns_cache.db --exclude=/home/example/www

When it's done, download the achieve file to your local machine (plus the sql db backups from phpMyAdmin) and you're done!

[darkwolf]

hi guys
sorry for leaving the post for so long been away on work

right im a newbie
apart from the jag daily backups

vin dsl posted :

One requires your own install of phpMyAdmin, and the other requires WinSCP/PuTTY (WinSCP is built on top of PuTTY).

All you have to do (Part 1) is backup your sql dbs using phpMyAdmin, and download them to your local machine.

Then, use WinSCP to TAR the rest of your site[s] - and download that to your local machine.
posted by vince

the Part 1 i get , when it comes to WinSCP im lost sorry