Comments on: Script to backup your server to FTP or Amazon S3 with PHP

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:03:13 +0000

Love what you’ve done, but need a little assistance. When I put your PHP script and the Class file on my server, I edited where needed… secret, dir, etc… and ran the script. It went through and archived all the web directories as expected and placed them in the temp directory I created.

Here’s what it didn’t do: No upload to Amazon S3

So, I ran the script again, and got the following error…

Warning: S3::putObject(): [NoSuchBucket] The specified bucket does not exist in /usr/local/bin/s3.class.php on line 358

Any thoughts?

By: Brade

Brade — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:43:56 +0000

Also as an FYI, as cool as this script is, it looks like JungleDisk now has a server-specific edition which I have installed, and it works great: https://www.jungledisk.com/business/server/features/

$5 a month + .15 per GB (1st 10 GB are free), so still a pretty cheap solution. Has functions to automate recovery, etc. as well, and much less resource intensive during the backup.

By: Brade

Brade — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:52:12 +0000

This script was ALMOST great… It was backing up databases to s3 one-by-one, which was very nice. But when it came to backing up the web directories, it seems to try to do them all at once, and spawned a ton of gzip/tar processes on the server, and basically slowed our server to a crawl. I tried not doing it as a cron task, and simply running on the command line, so I’d know it’s not duplicating efforts, but still had massive slow-down. I wonder if there’s a better way to split the web directory back-ups into smaller chunks, as is the case with the databases?

By: Garrett St. John

Garrett St. John — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:50:32 +0000

Genius! Thanks so much!

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By: Jordi

Jordi — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:47:44 +0000

It looks like a permission issue. Maybe the user your cronjob is running doesn’t have the correct permissions to backup all directories on your server. A lot of the directories are owned by the root user and another user can’t back it up. I run this cronjob specifically as root just to make sure I have all directories and files available.

By: allaboutduncan

allaboutduncan — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:28:19 +0000

I got the script up and running. It runs fine when I manually call it from SSH as root user. It backs up and then states how many minutes until next run.

However, when I add job to my CRON using crontab and SSH - it runs continuously.

For example, after running manually. I set the process to run every 10 minutes (I’m sending 300MB files). It correctly starts 24 hours later. After it starts from CRON, it continues to run - ignoring the 24 time limit.

Any ideas?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:14:32 +0000

Hi,

Great script - but it keeps timing out on me. I have one website with a lot of files (100megs), and it just stops compressing after a while. Grrr..what to do? Seemed like a perfect solution.

By: Stas

Stas — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:26:56 +0000

Hi again.

I found a critical issue which I wanted you to notice - the current script clears lock on every exit, which means even if didn’t run because it’s already locked, it WILL run the next time.

Moving the register_shutdown() after lock check has solved the issue.

Overall the script is great, and I really think you should host it on github or google code to share it with more people.

Regards.

By: Stas

Stas — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:38:28 +0000

Hi.

Great script, going to try it out.

Just would appreciate an easier download - as currently it’s required to select the whole text then paste it in a file.

Regards.