Some of the low cost Hosting Providers do not even offer an interface to backup your webspace.<\/p>\n
Personally I do think about it as annoying to download all the previous uploaded files again and again through a slow and less reliable FTP Client interface when an easy script executed on the server can do so much quicker for you instead.<\/p>\n
To give you an idea what about I’m talking, I’ve written together an easy example you may feel free about to use it in your own environment in future.<\/p>\n
It is able to do both, creating a local backup in a separate folder on your server, as also to transfer this backup to your local machine or even to another FTP Server on the net: <\/p>\n
#!\/bin\/bash if [ $# != 3 ];then version=1.0<\/em><\/p>\n ##### INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS: STEP 1 ##### serverip=yourserver.com serveruser=youruser serverpass=yourpassword localdir=\/home\/your\/local\/folder sourcedir=\/home\/your\/source\/folder remotedir=your\/remote\/folder ##### END YOUR INFO HERE #####<\/em><\/p>\n ##### INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS: STEP 2 ##### # Add the script to a scheduled cron job to run as often as you like (if wished!)<\/em><\/p>\n # In SSH do crontab -e, then paste in the following host=`hostname` echo "Starting FTP Backup on " $host<\/em><\/p>\n # Creating a local tar.gz Archive # Transfer the tar.gz Archive to remote server # Delete local tar.gz Archive again echo "Ftp backup complete on " $host Some of the low cost Hosting Providers do not even offer an interface to backup your webspace. Personally I do think about it as annoying to download all the previous uploaded files again and again through a slow and less reliable FTP Client interface when an easy script executed on the server can do so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,14,31,15,49],"tags":[20,76,80,78,75,79,81,77,74],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backup","category-operatingsystem","category-tipsntricks","category-unix","category-webtech","tag-backup","tag-ftp","tag-ftp-client","tag-gzip","tag-hosting","tag-remote","tag-server","tag-tar","tag-webspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askthegerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askthegerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askthegerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askthegerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askthegerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.askthegerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/www.askthegerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askthegerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askthegerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askthegerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
# FTP Backup by Michael Lohmar
# Script: ftpbackup.sh
# Author: Michael Lohmar
# Contact? info@mikelo.com<\/em><\/p>\n
echo ""
echo "Shell script for backing up one given domain."
echo "Usage: $(basename $0) domain_to_backup [FTP\/NOFTP] [DEL\/NODEL]"
echo ""
exit
fi<\/em><\/p>\n
##### START ENTER YOUR INFO HERE #####<\/em><\/p>\n
# Your remote servers IP address
# EG: serverip=192.168.1.1<\/em><\/p>\n
# The FTP login for the remote server
# EG: serveruser=bob<\/em><\/p>\n
# The FTP password for the remote server
# EG: serverpass=mypassword<\/em><\/p>\n
# WHERE LOCAL FILES ARE TO BACKUP
# NO TRAILING SLASH
# EG: localdir=\/backup\/folder\/daily<\/em><\/p>\n
# WHERE LOCAL FILES ARE TO BACKUP
# NO TRAILING SLASH
# EG: localdir=\/domain\/source\/folder<\/em><\/p>\n
# FTP directory where you want to save files to
# This directory must exist on the FTP server!
# NO TRAILING SLASH
# EG: remotedir=\/serverdirectory<\/em><\/p>\n
# CHMOD the script to 755: # chmod 755 ftpbackup.sh<\/em><\/p>\n
# 0 6 * * 0,1,3,5 \/home\/admin\/ftpbackup.sh
# This does a FTP backup every second day of the week, lookup cronjobs for more info on setting dates and times.
# Don’t forget to substitue the path info to the script with your details
##### INSTALL COMPLETE #####
# DO NOT MODIFY ANYTHING BELOW #<\/em><\/p>\n
cd $sourcedir<\/em><\/p>\n
tar cfvz $localdir\/$1_`date +%y_%m_%d`.tar.gz $1<\/em><\/p>\n
if [ $2 == FTP ];then
cd $localdir
echo "user $serveruser $serverpass
cd $remotedir
bin
verbose
put $1_`date +%y_%m_%d`.tar.gz
" | ftp -i -n $serverip
fi<\/em><\/p>\n
if [ $3 == DEL ];then
rm $localdir\/$1_`date +%y_%m_%d`.tar.gz
fi<\/em><\/p>\n
exit 0
<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"