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Thanks!

Just set my backup script up now

Now, to wait and see it in action...

Added mine, been meaning to do something like this for a while. Can't wait to see it in action. Great article Ryan!

Glad you like it - would love to hear how it works out for you...There are a lot of touchy and important settings, so it's easy to make a mistake somewhere. Nothing that is going to break anything, but stuff that will prevent the backups from running...

So come back and let us know when it does or does not work out

Where will the backup be put? And should the backup file be in the public_html or before it?

The backup will be stored in the folder that you created in Step 2 ...This is also where you should have uploaded backupscript.sh and in the same location as backup_path= in your settings.

Also, it should definitely be before the public_html folder...as stated in the tutorial, having it in the public_html folder can pose a security risk.

Thanks, I was wondering why it wasn't working, I forgot to edit the path in the config file. Can't wait for the end of the hour to see if it works.

You mentioned it would store the last three backups. What happens when a forth backup is completed? Is one of the previous three automatically deleted? This might be a problem if you go on vacation and don't have access to FTP the backups off of the server and onto your local machine, like I tend to do.

Right, when a fourth backup is made, the third oldest is deleted. You only have 3 backups at any given time. This does give me an idea, though. I can create more scripts which will maintain a different number of backups...ie: 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 25, more? Realize that these will start to take up quite a bit of diskspace. The other option is to have this script running and having another script running in addition to it. The second script would provide a daily backup - for 7 days, possibly. This would mean that you would have 7 daily backups in addition to 3 recent backups.

Would like to get some feedback here before creating the scripts and rewriting the tutorial though.

Finnally got it too work!