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shmackup 1.0

Kevin Jaako — Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 13:31

Hi Mark.

Thanks for the tip,
It should be fixed now, try again! =)

I'm not sure if you will be able to run this drupal backup script without shell access, it depends on what Network Solutions allows. If they allow you to upload shell script files and run them with cron, you should be fine, though!

Let me know how it goes...

Forbidden trying to download?

fymbscu — Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 11:37

Forbidden trying to download schmackup.sh. Can you send it to me or grant access please?

Hosted by Network Solutions without shell access. Will cron be able to make your script work, if I can get cron working?

Thanks, Mark

I think the main thing right

Ruth — Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 20:23

I think the main thing right back up, it is better to spend a little more time than then fully restores the entire site.

It's really very helpful. I

Sandip Saini — Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 18:19

It's really very helpful. I will try using this trick,here is some good info .great blog!!!!!!!!

Thank you!

Niclas — Sunday, April 19, 2009 - 07:15

I modified it a bit but you saved me some work :) Have a nice weekend

/Niclas

Shmackup.sh tar command

Kevin Jaako — Friday, April 3, 2009 - 22:54

Hi NeilH,

The webroot files are actually intentionally TAR'd without compression. If you notice further down in the script, the webroot.tar and database.sql files are combined together into a compressed tar.gz file for final archival. Compressing the webroot documents twice would only consume additional server CPU time without providing any additional reduction in archive file size.
Any thoughts?

UPDATE: - oops! I see what you were referring to now... (the tar command in my blog post, not the backup script) You were right! It's fixed now. - KJ

Thanks for stopping by!
KJ

Minor error in tar command above

Neilh — Friday, April 3, 2009 - 11:16

Note the tar command above wont create a compressed backup file, just a backup file. For compression use:

tar czf webroot.tar.gz ./
and to extract if you have to restore
tar xzf webroot.tar.gz