Comments on: Website Backup Script: MySQL dumps and SSH supported.

By: Duc

Duc — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:16:46 +0000

I just stumbled upon your script while searching for a backup of my files. I’ve tested the ‘FTP’ backup but am having some issue. The cronjob report has some errors which I do not know the answer to. Can someone interrupt it? Thanks.

INFO - lftp output:
        open: ftpes.xxxx.com: Name or service not known
        mirror: Not connected
INFO - rdiff-backup output:
        Warning: could not determine case sensitivity of source directory at
          /backups/websites/mirror
        because we can't find any files with letters in them.
        It will be treated as case sensitive.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:42:47 +0000

I use an old release of your script, with my site that has some symlinks that point to home directory, the script seems to go in loop so I added the --no-symlinks option. Wouldn’t it be better to have this option by default?
Anyway I’m going to try a newer version to check if somehing changed.
Thanks a lot the script is very useful

By: Website Backup Script: bug fix release at Coolkevmen

Website Backup Script: bug fix release at Coolkevmen — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:38:48 +0000

[...] 14 months after the last release, here is a new version of my website backup script. As you can see in the changelog, this version is essentially released to fix some bugs. [...]

By: mykey

mykey — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:18:25 +0000

I really like this script – or rather – the features it is supposed to deliver. I am running sshd on a non standard port and try to use the passwordless login variant – it works well dumping the databases just using 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -p 22222' for the host address, but when I try the same thing backing up my htdocs directory, rsync fails with the following error:

 INFO - rsync output:
        building file list ...
        rsync: link_stat "/root/mykey@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" failed: No such file or directory (2)
        rsync: link_stat "/root/22222:/var/www/htdocs" failed: No such file or directory (2)
        0 files to consider

If you can supply a hint on how to avoid that I would be very pleased – please email me if you can see a solution.
Thanks anyway for the nice script.

By: dan

dan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:13:25 +0000

Whenever I try the mysql+ssh method, I keep getting prompted for the password. I looked at the code, and it looks like it is missing the function to send the password for this method (file backup over SSH works fine). Is this expected behavior, or am I doing something wrong?

By: kev

kev — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:22:48 +0000

It would be nice to have the configurations on an external file or pulled from a database.

Thanks Matthew for this suggestion !I will consider to add this feature for the next release.But currently I'm not focused on this script, so don't expect to have a new release any time soon. Please keep an eye on this blog via the RSS feed to be informed about new updates !

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:33:52 +0000

Very Very Very nice piece of code.. Thank you.

I have a feature request. I want to use your script to backup a couple dozen sites. It would be nice to have the configurations on an external file or pulled from a database. I hate to modify the main scripts when i add a new site. Perhaps a different config file per site.

By: kev

kev — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:54:12 +0000

Do you know the program duplicity?

Hi Daniel. Yes, I know duplicity: it was created by the same author as rdiff-backup. Currently I don't need it because all my backups are saved on machines within a LAN protected by a firewall. My backup server can't be reached by Internet so I don't need an extra level of security (read complexity).

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:36:06 +0000

Do you know the program duplicity?
With duplicity you can save your data encrypted. I use this when I want to save my data on a ftp-server.