Daily Backup Cron Job

[tstern]

Hi y'all-
I have a question for our panel of experts.

I'm wondering if something like this would be possible via a cron job (or a script called by a cron job):

1. Create a full backup of my domains
2. Email it to an email address
3. Then delete it

Any ideas? At all possible?

Thanks

toby

[thevillageinn]

I'm not sure if your backup file is large, but if it is, do you have an e-mail address which will accept it?

[tstern]

it is large, but i'd use a gmail account...

[thevillageinn]

do you have an inside track to getting a gmail account?

also, aren't there sometimes limits to the attachment size set in the mailer daemon?

[Ben]

gmail has a 10mb file attachment size limit as I recall.

[eugene]

Two better approaches:
1. Create the backup and then FTP it to another server
2. Create the backup file and have your backup machine pull the file down

In general, avoid email. Aren't email attachments still encoded, thus increase size?

[Jeff]

Here's a script to use Gmail as an online backup system (http://ilia.ws/archives/15_Gmail_as_an_online_backup_system.html).

[Joe]

VERY interesting concept!

Thanks for that link

[Lew_Cipher]

Originally posted by tstern@Jun 29 2004, 07:57 AM
I'm wondering if something like this would be possible via a cron job (or a script called by a cron job):

1. Create a full backup of my domains
2. Email it to an email address
3. Then delete it

Any ideas? At all possible?


Toby's question was never really answered. It's the same question I have. I do have an e-mail account that will allow this so... can it be done just as Toby asked?

Thanks in advance!!

[eugene]

Yes, it is possible, but, as you might imagine, it could prove to be very resource intensive and hurt other people on the box. Perhaps a delta or incremental backup would be better.