Re: Need Idea to make Backup

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Hello Ashley,

yes rsync is a good idea, but does this also work if there is only a 
internet conection to may SERVER ?

Kind Regards
Jens Geier

"Ashley Sheridan" <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:1263377397.5952.60.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 10:53 +0100, Jens Geier wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> my idea is to make a backup of some paths of my laptop via PHP.
>>
>> I like to use a MySQL Datebase to trace which file was uploaded from 
>> which
>> path and so on.
>>
>> Also it should be uses to look up it is nessasery to backup this file
>> because it was changed since last time or not.
>>
>> All this files should be uploaded to the SERVER in a special folder where
>> this files run to a tape backup machine.
>>
>> I hope some one can give me some ideas for this.
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Jens Geier
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> There's a few ways to go about doing this, but I reckon you should do
> something similar to the following:
>
>
>      * schedule a cron job to run as often as you want the backup to be
>        done, and have the cron call a script
>      * the script can either be php and use your own code to create
>        copies of files and check file dates for backup purposes, or use
>        the rsync tool which pretty much does all of this for you
>        automatically
>      * update a database as you need. this can be done either from a
>        php script or directly via mysql on the console
>
>
> If you do use PHP for this, you'll want to code it as a CLI script
> rather than a web page script. On the whole it won't make much of a
> difference, but obviously some global variables will change a bit.
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
> 



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