Posts Tagged ‘Backup’

How to Backup Windows 8

May 14th, 2013 No Comments »

 

A lot of new users of Windows 8 are not aware how to back up their operating system and prevent sudden data loss in case of a nasty computer crash. There are factory-loaded tools embedded in this version of Windows: these tools include backup features such as File History backup. Read the rest of this entry »

MySQL replication – How-to

April 4th, 2013 No Comments »

MySQL replication is quite straight forward. Here are the setup steps: Read the rest of this entry »


CPanel full backup (all files+databases+emails) PHP script

January 26th, 2013 23 Comments »

 

I was looking for a working script to take full backup (all files+databases+emails) manually or using cron services on my hosting server, each CPanel user by one. But most of the scripts are either old, totally unusable or commercial.
So I wrote one for my own use and sharing here so others don’t need to re-invent the wheel

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01<!--?php
02// Must include cPanel API
03include "xmlapi.php";
04  
05//CONFIG SECTION
06//*******************************************************
07// Credentials for cPanel account
08$source_server_ip = "your_domain_or_IP"; // Server IP or domain name eg: 212.122.3.77 or cpanel.domain.tld
09$cpanel_account = "userid"; // cPanel username
10$cpanel_password = "password"; // cPanel password
11// Credentials for FTP remote site
12$ftphost = "ip_or_hostname_of_ftp"; // FTP host IP or domain name
13$ftpacct = "userid"; // FTP account
14$ftppass = "password"; // FTP password
15$logs_dir = "/"; //FTP Remote Folder
16$email_notify = 'your_email@domain.com'; // Email address for backup notification
17$backupexpireindays=21; //3 weeks expire time in days, 21 days = 7*24*60
18//END OF CONFIG SECTION
19//*******************************************************
20//Do not edit below this line
21 
22$backupexpireindays=($backupexpireindays*24)*3600; //convert it to seconds, 24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds
23 
24$xmlapi = new xmlapi($source_server_ip);
25$xmlapi--->password_auth($cpanel_account,$cpanel_password);
26$xmlapi->set_port('2083');
27  
28// Delete any other backup with filetime greater than expire time, before create new backup
29$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftphost);
30$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftpacct, $ftppass);
31 
32ftp_chdir($conn_id, $logs_dir);
33$files = ftp_nlist($conn_id, ".");
34foreach ($files as $filename) {
35        $fileCreationTime = ftp_mdtm($conn_id, $filename);
36        //$date = date("F j, Y, g:i a", ftp_mdtm($conn_id, $filename));
37        //print "<br>Timestamp of '$filename': $date";
38        $fileAge=time();
39        $fileAge=$fileAge-$fileCreationTime;
40        if ($fileAge > $backupexpireindays) { // Is the file older than the given time span?
41               //echo "<br>The file $filename is older than Expire time :$expiretime ...Deleting\n";
42               ftp_delete($conn_id, $filename);
43               //echo "<br>Deleted<br><br>";
44               }
45}
46 
47ftp_close($conn_id);
48  
49$api_args = array(
50                           'passiveftp',
51                           $ftphost,
52                           $ftpacct,
53                           $ftppass,
54                           $email_notify,
55                            21,
56                            '/'
57                         );
58  
59$xmlapi->set_output('json');
60print $xmlapi->api1_query($cpanel_account,'Fileman','fullbackup',$api_args);
61  
62?>

You need to save it with .php extension (upload it to your server) and download include file from xmlapi.zip(right click->save as) and extract it to the same folder (on your web server). Create cron job from your CPanel or trigger it manually to get full backup in your FTP server, That’s it.
OR
You can fork from my git hub Repositories at cpanel-Fullbackup
Enjoy