Recommendation for PHP-based backup-restore utility for whole site?
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lshick
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Posted: Wed, 2007-09-19 21:18
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I'm looking for a recommendation for a PHP-based utility that I can use to back up my whole site. This is NOT just the MySQL database, but also the photos themselves, Gallery support files, and non-Gallery pages. I have the ability to FTP (some--see below) files up to the server and back, and can use HTTP to "drive" the utility, but I have no command-line access or SSH or Telnet to the server. My ISP is Yahoo, which I believe uses Apache/Unix for its engine. Thanks. PS: It's never that simple, is it? A couple of other thoughts. I suspect that I could use some sort of zip/tar/?? utility to bundle the whole site up in to one big file, which I could download to my desktop, subject to questions on open files, which may be the same thing as I said up above. I'm doing something like that with the mySQL backup utility, and it works fine. However, simple FTP won't do, because I have files (photos) with spaces in the names, and FTP gags on that, in other words PHP can create files that Yahoo FTP (or maybe it's my MS desktop FTP) can't work with (directly). Thanks again. |
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I have the same question; found plenty of mysql dump utilities, but is there something web based that is robust and reliable?
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Gallery 2.3 tries to address this issue. If you don't have shell access and if the backup options offered by your webhost aren't robust enough (running into timeouts maybe), then you can use Gallery 2.3's database backup tool.
Gallery 2.3 is still in development and for Gallery 2.2 there's is no Gallery specific backup option.
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There is a good working script named Back your Space up. It is based on PHP and zip. But there is an big disadvantage for you: it is only available in german.
If you have someone who could translate it for you - here is the link: http://www.ruinelli.ch/bysu.
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I guess I'll have to see how far I can get with Babelfish on that german site! Can't find anything else yet!
Valiant -- does the proposed backup utility include archiving the g2data folder??
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If you are minded to correct my translations we could translate it into english. This tool is under gpl, so there is no problem. My english is not as good as it should be for an clean english version thats why I would need some support for doing this ;-)
Feel free to contact me if you are interested.
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I would be happy to help! Thank you!
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