Automatic cPanel backup with cron and PHP

[Deandre]

I want to do a full backup of my site before making me hack. I make regular backups of my databases (manually or with a plugin like WP-DbManager) and my files but I recently was looking to automate things and I found. In fact, I am fortunate to have Cpanel as a management tool on my accommodation and I came across this section which the author proposes a PHP script to automate the backup using Cron. Please help for step. Thanks.

[MindSpace]

You need to go through the tab "Backup" and manually click to launch such a project but with this script, the backup is done when I want and I am more notified by email. PHP script to allow periodic cPanel backups Automatically, OPTIONALLY to a remote FTP server.This script contains passwords. KEEP ACCESS TO THIS FILE SECURE! (Place it in your home dir, not / www /)

// Info required for cPanel access
$ Cpus = "Username"; / / Username Used to login to CPanel
$ Cppass = "Password"; / / Password Used to login to CPanel
<span> $ Domain = "<A href ="http:/// / Example.com "> example.com </ a>" / / Domain name WHERE IS CPanel run </ span>
$ Skin = "X"; / / Set to cPanel skin you use (script will not work if it does not match). Most people run the default x theme
/ / Info required for FTP host
$ Ftpuser = "Ftpusername"; / / Username for FTP account
$ Ftppass = "Ftppassword"; / / Password for FTP account
<span> $ Ftphost = "<A href ="http:/// / Ftp.example.com "> ftp.example.com </ a>"; / / Full hostname or IP address for FTP host </ span>
$ Ftpmode = "Ftp"; / / FTP mode ("ftp" for active, "passiveftp" for passive)
/ / Notification information
<span> $ Notifyemail = "You @ <a href ="http:/// / Example.com "> example.com </ a>"; / / Email address to send results </ span>
/ / Secure or non-secure mode
$ Secure = 0; / / Set to 1 for SSL (requires SSL support), Otherwise Will use standard HTTP
/ / Set to a new serie web page APPEAR result in your cron log
$ Debug = 0;
/ / *********** NO CONFIGURATION ITEMS BELOW THIS LINE *********

if ($ Secure) {
$ Url = "ssl: / /".$ Domain;
$ Port = 2083;
} else {
$ Url = $ Domain;
$ Port = 2082;
}
 
$ Socket = fsockopen($ Url,$ Port);
if (!$ Socket) { echo "Failed to open socket connection ... Bailing out \ n"; exit; }
 
/ / Encode authentication string
$ Authstr = $ Cpus.":".$ Cppass;
$ Pass = base64_encode($ Authstr);

$ Params = "Dest = $ ftpmode &amp; amp; notifyemail $ email = &amp; amp; ftphost $ server = &amp; amp; user = $ ftpuser &amp; amp; ftppass $ pass = &amp; amp; submit = Generate Backup ";
/ / Make POST to cPanel
fputs($ Socket,"POST / frontend /".$ Skin."/ Backup / dofullbackup.html?".$ Params."HTTP/1.0 \ r \ n");
fputs($ Socket,"Host: $ domain \ r \ n");
fputs($ Socket,"Authorization: Basic $ pass \ r \ n");
fputs($ Socket,"Connection: Close \ r \ n");
fputs($ Socket,"\ R \ n");
 
/ / Grab response Even If We Do not Do Anything With It.
while (!feof($ Socket)) {
$ Response = fgets($ Socket,4096);
if ($ Debug) echo $ Response;
}
fclose ($ Socket);
?> 

[Zecho]

You need to create a new cron job (cron job) like this:
* go to "Cron Spot"
* choose the "advanced (unix) mode"
* indicate the times and dates must be made this script:
For example, every night at 2:15 am:
February 15 * * * / usr / local / bin / php / home /youraccount/ Fullbackup.php
or every Sunday at 2:15 am:
February 15 * * 1 / usr / local / bin / php / home /youraccount/ Fullbackup.php

[opaper]

Its up to your pure ftp. After some research, I have indeed chosen pure-ftp to its reputation for safety (what it says ^ ^) and especially because it will allow me to do what I want fairly simple (as you'll be able to report). I am much inspired tutorial available here (I recommend you also coagulated, site is excellent for those who want "administer" his machine : ) As usual, the installation is done by the command:

apt-get install pure-ftpd

Configuring pure-ftp is special, in fact it hinges on the command line and much of the configuration is done by the presence or absence of a single file configuration option (I guess it avoids a large file to parse configuration ^_~).

[Arumugan]

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[Mahish]

Elearly, although three quarters of clients want the panel is already configured when it arrives (data ready) etc..To be in the process of comparing cPanel and Plesk on two different servers, I can not at this point, asserting that Plesk is easier than cPanel. This is promising, but a panel to equal server configuration, Plesk is significantly slower to use than cPanel and also more complicated. In terms of referrals, cPanel is much more powerful.