is it possible to create backup saving some files (copy and replace) from a server to another, not necessary the same provider ?
Thanks !
rsync setup through cron is the canonical way of doing this
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i have a .bak file and i want to check its data before importing it to host ! i tried to open it with MS SQL server management studio to see data inside the backup file. i googled a lot but i couldnt understand how to open this file ! i saw every solution to import a .bak file in a existed database ! i have no database on my local computer. how can i check my backup file data ? anyone can help ?
thanks in advance !
There are some 3rd party tools. Try searching google for "open bak file without sql server".
Also there is free SQL express, so you can install server on your local computer and attach database. Default installation should do the trick.
You can even open it in notepad, but it's not very practical..
I have a web site on the cpanel(whm), I want to backup whole site and transfer it to another stand-alone server of my own, is that feasible? how to do it?
If the new server doesn't have cPanel I don't think there is a method of recreating automatically the account, so just try to run /scripts/pkgacct user(if you have root on cPanel server) or just use cPanel -> Backups -> Download or generate a full website backup.
Copy archive to the new server and start to manually recreate account, databases, etc.
Archive contain all the informations you need like dnszones, mysql databases, homedir.tar(all the files from /home/user), etc.
Yes! its easy!
Login to WHM
On the left there is Search box type Backup and click on Backup Configuration (OR go to Backup >> Backup Configuration)
Change Backup Status to enable
Check the options as per your requirement & at the end of page find Additional Destinations there might be drop down OR check box for FTP server click on that
FTP details of another server where you want to store all of your backups.
Hope it helps!
I realise there is a command:
BACKUP DATABASE [DB Name] TO DISK [PATH]
Is it possible to backup to a remote location? - E.G. the web server rather than the database server?
Yes. Exactly the same syntax as the normal backup command, but replace the path as appropriate, eg:
BACKUP DATABASE [DB NAME] TO DISK [\\server\share\path]
There's an example on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179313.aspx that shows this.
You will need to make sure that the SQL server account is able to write files to the named path.
i created a remote full/transact backup template which you can try it out, it checks the local disk space and remote disk space before transfering.
git clone https://github.com/jnre/SQL_backupremote.git
Does anyone know of a script or program that can be used for backing up multiple websites?
Ideally, I would like the have it setup on a server where the backups will be stored.
I would like to be able to add the website login info, and it connects and creates a zip file or similar that it would then be sent back to the remote server to be saved as a backup etc...
But it would also need to be able to be set up as a cron so it backed up everyday at least?
I can find PC to Server backups that a similar, but no server to server remote backup scripts etc...
It would be heavily used, and needs to be a gui so the less techy can use it too?
Does anyone know of anything similar to what we need?
HTTP-Track website mirroring utility.
Wget and scripts
RSync and FTP login (or SFTP for security)
Git can be used for backup and has security features and networking ability.
7Zip can be called from the command line to create a zip file.
In any case you will need to implement either secure FTP (SSH secured) OR a password-secured upload form. If you feel clever you might use WebDAV.
Here's what I would do:
Put a backup generator script on each website (outputting a ZIP)
Protect its access with a .htpasswd file
On the backupserver, make a cron script download all the backups and store them
I would like to make a complete backup of my whole joomla 1.5 based site from time to time. How would this ideally be done? Are there any common pitfalls? Not that I only have ftp access to the hosting server. Is there a step by step tutorial somewhere? I am using latest Joomgallery and Kunena 1.0.9 (Legacy mode).
Maybe there is a good way to automate this?
There's two parts of the backup you have to worry about, the database and the files.
The first part is the database. It can be backed up using something like phpMyAdmin. If you don't have this available on your server already, it's not too hard to upload and get it going yourself. From there, you can just Export the entire database to a gzip file.
The second part is the code and uploaded files. The code base shouldn't change too often, so you could probably just make one backup of this. There's a number of ways. The simplest is to just download the entire folder via FTP, though if you're Linux, I'm sure someone will know a single command line to get all the changed files (rsync?).
The database is the main thing you have to worry about though: everything else should be able to be rebuilt just by reinstalling.
I think this: http://www.joomlapack.net/ is what you need. I use it myself and it works like a charm. Both for backups and for moving my Joomla installations from developer sites and to the real site.
get an FTP synchronisation tool and keep an up-to-date copy of your site locally. Then you could run the batch script
mysqldump -hhost -uuser -p%1 schema > C:\backup.sql
to create a backup of your mysql tables at various points in time.
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you would have to have MySQL Server installed on your local machine and path to its bin directory in you PATH, in order to run the mysqldump command without much hassle. -p%1 would take the command-line provided password, as you wouldn't want to store passwords in your batch script.
If you only have FTP access you are in a bit of a problem, as beside all files you'll also have to backup the database. Without accessing the database, a full-backup won't do you any good.
Whatever backup strategy you choose - be sure it can handle UTF-8 correctly. Joomla 1.5 stores all content with UTF-8, even when the database charset is set on 'iso-5589-1' - so when the backup solution is detecting the database charset, some characters like € or é will result in "strange" ¬ / é - not really what you'll want.
I absolutely endorse using Joomlapack - it works great. The optional remote tools allow you to initiate the backup from a Windows desktop machine - it performs the backup and downloads it. The remote has a scheduler, and you can also set it off to backup and download a list of sites.
Joomlapack also provides a file "kickstart.php" which you copy to your empty server account along with the backup, which automates the restore procedure. You do have to create an empty database with PHPMyAdmin or similar, and you are given the opportunity to supply the database parameters (host, database, username, password) during the process.
One pitfall I did run into with this though is that some common components can have absolute URLs in their configuration - e.g. SOBI2, Virtuemart. It's then just a matter of finding the appropriate configuration file, editing it and re-uploading it.
Another problem was one archive file (either ZIP or their JPA format) got a filename with a "?" character in it (from a Linux server) and this caused a bit of a problem trying to install it locally on a Windows WAMP stack - the extract process on the ZIP file failed, and it stopped the process completing cleanly.
I suggest using automatic backup service by http://www.everlive.net
Update:
Ok, here is some more information. EverLive.net is a website where you can create a free account. Enter your website details and you are ready to take your backups withe just one click. Restore is also possible in the same way.
Further you can use automatic backup option to take automatic backups at defined intervals. Other than that, you can use the website health check service to inform you if your website is not available.