Full backup with Cpanel and Cron

[godyn]

I've found a complete backup solution by search here.
Only thing: I'm not a server administrator, I only have my WHM and Cpanel accounts.
So I make file backups with the CRON now.

Now,
Is there a way to command line the Cpanel Backup script (wich is perfect), so that this creates a regular backup to an external server?
What is the code for this?

[doni49]

The majority of the following code is a script that my host provided me with. However I believe that his ultimate source was this forum but I do not know the author's name.

I've extended it to copy the resulting tar file to an external FTP site. A couple caveats:

* It only retains the most recent backup.
* My added code isn't all that well documented as I didn't originally intend to post it for others.

I plan to improve the commenting and add the ability to keep the last 5 or so backups but I'm too busy right now.

<?php

$live = false;
// PHP script to allow periodic cPanel backups automatically.
// Based on script posted by max.hedroom in cpanel.net forums
//   This script contains passwords.  KEEP ACCESS TO THIS FILE SECURE!


// ********* THE FOLLOWING ITEMS NEED TO BE CONFIGURED *********


// Info required for cPanel access
$cpuser = "username"; // Username used to login to CPanel
$cppass = "password"; // Password used to login to CPanel
$domain = "domain.com"; // 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 = "ftpUser"; // Username for FTP account
$ftppass = "ftpPass"; // Password for FTP account
$ftphost = "ftp.ftpserver.com"; // Full hostname or IP address for FTP host
$ftpmode = "ftp"; // FTP mode ("ftp" for active, "passiveftp" for passive)


// Notification information
$notifyemail = "username@domain.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 = 0;


// *********** NO CONFIGURATION ITEMS BELOW THIS LINE *********
function ftp_delfile($ftp_server,$ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass, $fileList){
    // set up basic connection
    $conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);

    // login with username and password
    $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
    foreach ($fileList as $file){
        // try to delete $file
        (ftp_delete($conn_id, $file));
    }
    // close the connection
    ftp_close($conn_id);
}

function ftp_getfilename($ftp_server,$ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass){
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);

// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);

// get contents of the current directory
if ($login_result){$contents = ftp_nlist($conn_id, ".");}

// output $contents
//var_dump($contents);
    if ($contents){
        $j = 0;
        for ($i = 0; $i < count($contents); $i++) {
            if (eregi ("^backup-[0-9]{1,2}.[0-9]{1,2}.[0-9]{4}_[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}_username.tar.gz$", $contents[$i])) {
                $fileList[$j] = $contents[$i];
                $j += 1;
            }
        }
    return $fileList;
    }else{
        echo "False";
    }
}
function getfilelist(){
  $j = 0;
   if ($dh = opendir("/home2/username/")) {
       while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
        if (eregi ("^backup-[0-9]{1,2}.[0-9]{1,2}.[0-9]{4}_[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}_username.tar.gz$", $file)) {
            $fileList[$j] = "/home2/username/" .$file;
            $j += 1;
        }
       }
       closedir($dh);
   }
    if ($fileList){
        return $fileList;
    }
}
$localfiles = getfilelist();

$files = ftp_getfilename($ftphost,$ftpuser,$ftppass);

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);

ftp_delfile($ftphost,$ftpuser,$ftppass,$files);
foreach ($localfiles as $local){
//    echo "Filename:  " . $local . "<br />";
    unlink ($local);
}
?>

[godyn]

that's great
thanks so much !