Re: Need Idea to make Backup

On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 14:57 +0100, Jens Geier wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > I don't understand what you mean? Ps, please try not to top-post. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk