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How to manually initiate nightly backup from the command line?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by cPanelBilly, Jan 9, 2008.

  1. cPanelBilly

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    There is no way easy to do this, best would probably be to just rsync the files (or ftp them if you prefer)
     
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    How to manually initiate nightly backup from the command line?

    Is there a way from the command line to run the nightly backup of CPANEL and specify an FTP source?

    We backup nightly to hard disk but I would like to also backup to FTP to a second source every once and a while.

    Thus I am looking for a solution where I can run a second backup run (to FTP) every once and a while.
     
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    You could have a secondary cpbackup.conf file with the FTP details in it. ONce you have that, create a shell script that:

    1. Renames the real cpbackup conf file
    2. Puts the FTP cpbackup conf file in place
    3. Executes /scritps/cpbackup --force (without --force the backup might fail with 'Backup is already up to date').
    4. Once the backups complete (will have to monitor processes for this), undo steps 2 and 1

    You could then execute the shell script manually.
     
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