Re: PHP Automatic Backup

Hello César, PHP, As for your question the answer is yes. At this point of time I'm working on it also. The main idea is set of a few scripts. One for dumping Database with data to a file, second one is creating a tar archive, and third one using fopen to put on FTP server some where:) It works. but I'm to lazy to complete it. :) Friday, July 5, 2002, 12:51:17 PM, you wrote: CA> Hi all. CA> I was reading the post by Pag called “MySQL backups” and I have the same CA> question, but not the shell access. It came to my mind, that if will be CA> very useful for me, and probably for many of us newbie’s, to be able to CA> build an automated PHP system that could make backups by itself at a CA> specified time… let’s say maybe every morning at 6 am, by transferring CA> or uploading the MySQL files to another server. I noticed that this CA> could be done in PHPNuke, by clicking at “Backup Files”. ¿Is it possible CA> to build this kind of unattended scripts with PHP or will it always CA> require a magical “click” from the administrator? CA> I guess that it shouldn’t be possible, but it’s worth a shot. CA> Thanks in advance, CA> Cesar Aracena <mailto:webmaster@icaam.com.ar> CA> CE / MCSE+I CA> Neuquen, Argentina CA> +54.299.6356688 CA> +54.299.4466621 -- Best regards, Latex mailto:freeman@submission.org.ru