Luis' Blog

Yesterday I had some issues with the WordPress 2.8 update and, supposedly,  qtranslate (a plugin to support several languages). The thing is I could restore WordPress 2.7.1 from an old backup, but I realized it dated from a month ago…bad, bad. I decided to do a research on automatic full-backup with cpanel and I came across the Automatic cPanel backup (domain & MySQL) with cron & PHP post by Justin Cook .There’s a php script to perform the cPanel‘s full backup request with ftp redirection to a remote host. Due to I don’t have a ftp server, I changed some lines to make backup locally, so I could get those backups from cPanel full-backup tool. Here’s what I got:

PHP Script

<?php
// Info required for cPanel access
$cpuser = "username";
$cppass = "password";
$domain = "example.com";
$skin = "x3";

// Notification information
$notifyemail = "[email protected]";

// Secure or non-secure mode
$secure = 1;

// Set to 1 to have web page result appear in your cron log
$debug = 0;

// ** NO EDIT BELOW THIS LINE ***

if ($secure) {
   $url = "ssl://".$domain;
   $port = 2083;
} else {
   $url = $domain;
   $port = 2082;
}

$socket = fsockopen($url,$port);

if (!$socket) {
   echo "Failed to open socket connection… Bailing out!\n"; exit;
}

// Encode authentication string
$authstr = $cpuser.":".$cppass;
$pass = base64_encode($authstr);

$params = \
"dest=homedir&email=$notifyemail&server=&user=&pass=&port=&rdir=";

// Make POST to cPanel
fputs($socket,\
"POST /frontend/".$skin."/backup/dofullbackup.html?".$params." HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs($socket,"Host: $domain\r\n");
fputs($socket,"Authorization: Basic $pass\r\n");
fputs($socket,"Connection: Close\r\n");
fputs($socket,"\r\n");

// Grab response even if we don't do anything with it.
while (!feof($socket)) {

$response = fgets($socket,4096);

if ($debug) echo $response;
}
fclose($socket);
?>

You can download the example here…

Cron jobs

In order to have the backup made every 15 days just save the above script as fullbackup.php and set cron in cPanel‘s tool as shown next:

References

• Automatic cPanel backup (domain & MySQL) with cron & PHP