FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 16, 2004

Free Cpanel FTP Backup script by WebHostGear

WebHostGear.com, a server administration and hosting tutorial site, is offering a free ftp backup script for Cpanel based servers that can replace the existing remote FTP backup feature used by default on Cpanel systems.

“We grew frustrated by the problems with Cpanel’s built in remote backup system, so I decided to write a custom script to do what I wanted,” says Steven Leggett, owner of WebHostGear.com.

“Now the remote FTP backup can be scheduled whenever you like and you can also specify which local folder, remote server and remote folder to backup to. In our case we had one central remote backup server which all our others production servers sent data backups to every day. With our custom script the backup server can have a folder for each production server, keeping things organized.”

The script does not interfere with Cpanel’s daily backup feature and can be scheduled separately from it.

The Cpanel FTP backup script can be downloaded at http://www.webhostgear.com/174.html for free. The Cpanel second hard drive backup feature must be enabled for the script to function properly.

Company: WebhostGear.com – The hosting resource for professionals
Website: http://www.webhostgear.com
Contact Name: Steven Leggett
Contact Email: info@webhostgear.com

Did you mean to post this in 'cPanel add-ons and development'?

It is not much of a howto

Interesting but this script produces the following:

root@webxx [/usr/local/backup]# ./ftpbackup.sh
: command not founde 1:
: command not founde 19:
: command not founde 20:
: command not founde 22:
: command not founde 25:
: command not founde 29:
: command not founde 33:
: command not founde 37:
: command not founde 42:
: command not founde 43:
: command not founde 49:
: command not founde 50:
: command not founde 52:
: command not founde 53:
: command not founde 56:
: command not founde 58:
: command not founde 62:
: command not founde 63:
: command not founde 66:
: command not founde 67:
: No such file or directory: /backup/cpbackup/daily
: command not founde 71:
Thu Apr 20 15:05:52 CDT 2006.servername.com
: command not founde 73:
: command not founde 74:

/backup/cpbackup/daily of course does exist and is a seperate drive.