[Typo3] Backup problems

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Nate Russell wrote:
> My company has has the Ready-To Run Server at Schlund. There are lots of
> options available to us but we unfortunately don't have root access.
> This means of course that I don't have access to the php.ini file. This
> is a bummer because I have a rather large site and I am having trouble
> backing it up. I have tried the w4x_backup extension but I can not open
> the resulting .gz file when the script is done. I think this is because
> the php script execution time is too low and our database is too big
> (around 400mb). This is causing, I think, underlying processes to time
> out. Like I said, we don't have root access and therefore can not change
> this value in the php.ini file.
> 
> Other than getting a different host or hosting package and moving all of
> our data to a new server, Are there any options I can try to solve my
> problem?
> 
> I have already tried deleting the caches before running the backup
> extension but I got the same results. I would still like use the
> w4x_backup extension because it offers such an easy solution.

You do not have to have root access, normal ssh account will do.

Create a shell script that executes `mysql` to backup your database
daily. Run it through the cron job. Create a shell script that executes
`tar cjf` to create a backup of your whole typo3 directory weekly.
Scripts can run at 3:00 in the morning, usually this is the least
visited time. I can send examples of scripts and cron configuration if
you want.

This is how I do backups for many years already. This approach saved me
a lot of time restoring my system (I had three crashes so far).

Dmitry.