Re: Need Idea to make Backup

Hello Ashley, yes rsync is a good idea, but does this also work if there is only a internet conection to may SERVER ? Kind Regards Jens Geier "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:1263377397.5952.60.camel@localhost... > On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 10:53 +0100, Jens Geier wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> my idea is to make a backup of some paths of my laptop via PHP. >> >> I like to use a MySQL Datebase to trace which file was uploaded from >> which >> path and so on. >> >> Also it should be uses to look up it is nessasery to backup this file >> because it was changed since last time or not. >> >> All this files should be uploaded to the SERVER in a special folder where >> this files run to a tape backup machine. >> >> I hope some one can give me some ideas for this. >> >> Kind Regards >> Jens Geier >> >> >> >> > > > There's a few ways to go about doing this, but I reckon you should do > something similar to the following: > > > * schedule a cron job to run as often as you want the backup to be > done, and have the cron call a script > * the script can either be php and use your own code to create > copies of files and check file dates for backup purposes, or use > the rsync tool which pretty much does all of this for you > automatically > * update a database as you need. this can be done either from a > php script or directly via mysql on the console > > > If you do use PHP for this, you'll want to code it as a CLI script > rather than a web page script. On the whole it won't make much of a > difference, but obviously some global variables will change a bit. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > >