auto backup

[stevieg_83]

Hi there,
I wonder if anyone can help me.

I'm trying to setup a Cron job via cPanel to create a backup of my home directory and then ftp an archive to my internal ftp server.

This script works brilliantly in meeting more than my requirement:

<?php

// PHP script to allow periodic cPanel backups automatically.
// Permissions on this file should be 600
// Place outside your public_html
// Crontab:  30 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/username/cpanel_backup.php

// ********* Configuration *********

// Info required for cPanel access
$cpuser = "user"; // Username used to login to CPanel
$cppass = "password"; // Password used to login to CPanel
$domain = "domain.co.uk"; // Domain name where CPanel is run
$skin = "x"; // Set to cPanel skin you use (script won't work if it doesn't match)

// Info required for FTP host
$ftpuser = "user"; // Username for FTP account
$ftppass = "password"; // Password for FTP account
$ftphost = "127.0.0.1"; // Full hostname or IP address for FTP host
$ftpmode = "passiveftp"; // FTP mode ("ftp" for active, "passiveftp" for passive)

// Notification information
$notifyemail = "email@email.com"; // Email address to send results

// Secure or non-secure mode
$secure = 0; // Set to 1 for SSL (requires SSL support), otherwise will use standard HTTP

// Set to 1 to have web page result appear in your cron log
$debug = 1;

// *********** Don't Touch!! *********

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 = $cpuser.":".$cppass;
$pass = base64_encode($authstr);

$params = "dest=$ftpmode&email;=$notifyemail&server;=$ftphost&user;=$ftpuser&pass;=$ftppass&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 don't do anything with it.
while (!feof($socket)) {
  $response = fgets($socket,4096);
  if ($debug) echo $response;
}

fclose($socket);

?>

This script backs up everything on my domain which is just under 1Gb. What I'd like to do is backup only my home directory.

I imagine that the line:

fputs($socket,"POST /frontend/".$skin."/backup/dofullbackup.html?".$params." HTTP/1.0\r\n");

is the key, how would I tell it not to do a full backup but only the home directory?

Thanks in advance,
Steven

[jrianto]

Hi Steven,
You have to modify the script and pickup the home directory backup file instead of the full backup wizard file.

fputs($socket,"POST /frontend/".$skin."/getbackup/backup-domain.com-MM-DD-YYYY.tar.gz HTTP/1.0\r\n");

Change the domain.com and date to the the actual one. I haven't tried that, but I think it should work.