anyone good with cronjobs?
 

Help Please

I need someone to set up a cronjob on one of my sites. I don't understand how they work.

It's for a daily backup of everything on that domain. The site, images and mysql database.

Thanks
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Thanks but I've already looked at several sites describing crons and I just don't get it. I don't understand what it does, how to code a command or how to access the backup and restore it.... :helpme

are you colocated or do you have an admin?
do you have root to your server?

I set up some cron jobs on my virtual site. They never ran, however according to the tech guys they should have. I have an idea how to do it. I'll help if I can.

I have cronjobs in cPanel and FTP root access if that helps.

icq me i'll give you a hand

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thing with cronjobs is that you can either run scripts like you would from the command line..eg.
0 0 * * * php /usr/local/www/backup.php
or you can run shell commands...
depending on where your data is then your backups could be simple...
0 0 * * * tar czvf /usr/local/www/sitenamedatabasefolder.tag.gz /var/db/mysql/sitedatabasefoldername
30 0 * * * tar czvf /usr/local/www/site.tar.gz /usr/local/www/sitefolder
first one would run at midnight, second one would run at 12:30
you might want to think of writing a little script that backs it up so you have 2 days worth of backups or something. That way you're not just overwriting your backups(just in case something bad happens to everything at 11:59 and you want to make sure you're back up isn't a back up after the shit hit the fan)

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Thank you guys, it's all good now
Thank you mrkris :thumbsup