Backup - Newbie Style

[Harlequin]

Hi.

I have a number of sites inslatted using Joomla and am currently using a 3rd party tool to backup the sites which is fine. However, it's been upgraded recently and now I can't do it remotely so I have to login to each site, backup, download the file and then delete it from the server. Not a hard task, but multiply it by 40+ websites...!

So, I'm thinking of using cron because all I really need to do is:

• Backup all the files and directories
• Grab the MySQL data
• Download this
• Remove the backup file from the server

I've managed to do this using the wizard in cPanel but I'd like to do it through Cron because then I can get one script working perfectly and copy it to all the other websites. However... Is what I want to do even possible...?

 

[minosjl]

As per the below link create a bash script and put it in cron job for the cPanel users you need to take the backup.In your case you also need to download the backup and after that remove the file from the server.So put these two command as a condition in " if " loop.

http://forums.cpanel.net/f49/want-set-up-simple-cron-job-automatic-full-backups-239572.html