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Can someone tell me what command would be to run a cron job to d/l the forum data daily?

I had to write a script that would tar up the cgi-bin and blahdocs. Then I put that script into the cronjob. I was thinking about writing an autobackup script for E-Blah but I'm still a novice :P

If it helps, I can send you my bash script and maybe it can assist you.

autobackup script for E-Blah is what Im looking for :)

If someone can help us out :)

Ok, bear with me but this is what I have as an auto-backup script

Save this file in your shell account as whatever_your_domain_is_backup.sh

You will also need to edit the first few lines to point to the correct directory (and you may need to make the backupdir directory). Also I made my script e-mail me every time a backup is performed so you will need to edit the [email protected] to point to your e-mail address.

Code

#!/bin/bash

sourcedir=/full/path/to/your/forums/cgi-bin
backupdir=~/eblahforumbackup/
haltfile=~/eblahforumbackup/.halt
datedir=`date +%Y/%m-%B/`

if [ ! -f $haltfile ] ; then
        touch $haltfile

        cd $sourcedir

        if [ ! -d ${backupdir}${datedir} ] ; then
                mkdir -p ${backupdir}${datedir}
        fi


        tar -cjf "${backupdir}${datedir}forums-`date +%m-%d-%y.%H-%M-%S`.tar.bz2" .


        echo "A daily backup was made of the Your Forum database ${sourcedir}. The file can be found at: ${backupdir}${datedir}gaforums-`date +%m-%d-%y.%H-%M-%S`.tar.bz2" | mail -s "Daily Backup Report" youremail@domain.com


        find $backupdir -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;
        find $backupdir -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty --parents

        rm -f $haltfile


fi

This code will tar your forum folder if configured correctly. It will also delete any backup that is older than 30 days.

Let me know if I can be of further assistance :)

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