Comments on: Making automatic backups for your website http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/01/30/making-automatic-backups-for-your-website/ Random things that interest me that I may want to remember later. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:43:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jerome http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/01/30/making-automatic-backups-for-your-website/#comment-268 Jerome Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:07:30 +0000 http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/01/30/making-automatic-backups-for-your-website/#comment-268 <p>Hi Matthew, nice tips. I have learn another way to back up site, but it was on line back up and run automatically. So, it was very easy to be used by newbies. Anyway, this post add my knowledge about how to back up using php. Thanks for the info.</p> Hi Matthew, nice tips. I have learn another way to back up site, but it was on line back up and run automatically. So, it was very easy to be used by newbies. Anyway, this post add my knowledge about how to back up using php. Thanks for the info.

]]> By: matthew http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/01/30/making-automatic-backups-for-your-website/#comment-180 matthew Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:37:26 +0000 http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/01/30/making-automatic-backups-for-your-website/#comment-180 <p>Hey Tom. Thanks for the comment. Yeah, I admit that using PHP may not be ideal, but I was studying it at the time I first found it, and since I was looking at the script anyway I figured, "Why not use it?" and see if it works well.<br /> <br /> It's done the job for me for a few months, reliably and easily, so I thought I would share it.<br /> <br /> Besides, my shell scripting ability isn't as good as my PHP...</p> Hey Tom. Thanks for the comment. Yeah, I admit that using PHP may not be ideal, but I was studying it at the time I first found it, and since I was looking at the script anyway I figured, "Why not use it?" and see if it works well.

It’s done the job for me for a few months, reliably and easily, so I thought I would share it.

Besides, my shell scripting ability isn’t as good as my PHP…

]]> By: Tom Haddon http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/01/30/making-automatic-backups-for-your-website/#comment-179 Tom Haddon Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:23:45 +0000 http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/01/30/making-automatic-backups-for-your-website/#comment-179 <p>I don't really see why you would want to use PHP for this. Why not just a shell script? A lot cleaner and easier to understand...</p> I don’t really see why you would want to use PHP for this. Why not just a shell script? A lot cleaner and easier to understand…

]]> By: matthew http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/01/30/making-automatic-backups-for-your-website/#comment-178 matthew Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:25:26 +0000 http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/01/30/making-automatic-backups-for-your-website/#comment-178 <p>Sorry for the crossed out lines in the beginning of the script when tar is called. My blog software uses a double dash to initialize and terminate the strikeout, and for some reason, even though the text is set as "preformatted," parts are still being struck out. Sorry.<br /> <br /> The tar line should have double dashes in front of "create," "preserve," "gzip," and "file."<br /> <br /> I presume it is because of the presence of quotation marks in the line. </p> Sorry for the crossed out lines in the beginning of the script when tar is called. My blog software uses a double dash to initialize and terminate the strikeout, and for some reason, even though the text is set as "preformatted," parts are still being struck out. Sorry.

The tar line should have double dashes in front of "create," "preserve," "gzip," and "file."

I presume it is because of the presence of quotation marks in the line.

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