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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