Are there any alternative scripts to Cpbackup?

[Adam_UOForums]

While the basic CPanel backup script works, it is somewhat limited

Ideally it'd be great if there was an option to preserve X number of daily/weekly/monthly backups, instead of the system overwriting the existing ones

Anyone know of a line of code/ing or script which can facilitate that?

[rhenderson]

There was another one on the forums, search for a smarter backup script. We quit using it when it the updates for it stopped, but if it might suit your needs.

[brianoz]

I've done one; you need to put a script in /scripts/postcpbackup. If interested let me know...

[lorio]

There was another one on the forums, search for a smarter backup script. We quit using it when it the updates for it stopped, but if it might suit your needs.

What are you using now?

[rhenderson]

Just the standard cPanel backup.

[Adam_UOForums]

There was another one on the forums, search for a smarter backup script. We quit using it when it the updates for it stopped, but if it might suit your needs.

Thanks, yea that's the first one I looked up, but it's no longer available.

[danielmolano]

are you using wordpress? if so they have a few plugins that will backup everything up..and if not then I'm sorry I dont know..all I know is wordpress.

[Voltar]

I believe that R1soft has integration with cPanel, but it's a little pricey.

[rhenderson]

You could just write a simple script to copy the files to a different location every night after backup has ran. Not a great way but it could solve your problems. You could rename the old folder before copying the new backups, something along those lines.

[brianoz]

This script is the one I mentioned previously, it works along similar lines to what rhenderson has suggested.

To make it work, you copy it into /scripts/postcpbackup and it is run after a backup completes successfully. The script rotates daily, weekly and monthly copies keeping N copies of each. You can specify N separately for daily, weekly and monthly through keepdaily/keepweekly/keepmonthly variables, and no copies are made if those variables are set to empty or not set. For instance, the following would keep two copies of daily backups and 3 weeks of weekly and no monthly backups:

keepdaily=2
keepweekly=3
keepmonthly=

You can put these settings in the script itself or in a file /backup/cpbackup/.postcpbackup

For the script, see www.whitedoggreenfrog.com/scripts - it's the top paragraph at the moment, postcpbackup...

[brianoz]

ps: if you use and like it, could you post here; also if it has bugs, let us know.

The version I have up at the moment uses "tac" but I can change it to use ls -tr instead, just haven't got around to doing it and testing it ...

[britsenigma]

I'm gonna test it out.

First thing I noticed is, if you have your backup folder in another location, you need to make a change to the CD command.

I inserted a variable at the top, although it would be nice if I could pull that variable fromwhere cpanel saves the tweaks data.