Re: Automated tasks with PHP

At 01:31 PM 11/17/2000 -0800, rodrigo wrote: sure anything's possible with linux :-) make the script dump mysql tables to files then in cron.daily write a short bash script to execute the script then tar the files and finally mail them to root make it executable (chmod +x <filename>) add the entry to your /etc/crontab file (it tells you syntax in the file) and your done! ~kurth

I would like to, say, run a backup script done in PHP (of course) that executes itself periodically. For example, every night at midnight I would like it to run itself and make a backup of the entire database and mail the compressed files to a certain email adddress. Is this possible? -- ************************************ Ivan R. Quintero E.* (507)228-3477

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