[drupal-support] automatically do database backups?

[Andrew Cohill]

On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:57 AM, Anisa wrote:

> So, the other day, my server's database completely crashes.  They 
> restored it, but you know..  scary stuff.  And of course, while I 
> could imagine files mysteriously disappearing, and kept backups of all 
> that, I never thought about the database, so I was backupless.
>

It's not an immediate solution for this question, but I use a shared 
hosting service that provides cpanel as the administrative tool for 
sites.  One of cpanel's options is to do a one click full backup, which 
you can then ftp to another site.

I'm currently trying to find the script cpanel uses to do the backup so 
I can run a cron job on it.  I already have a script that ftps from a 
remote machine once a day to grab the most recent backup file.

Andrew

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