[Typo3] Backup problems

[Nate Russell]

Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
> 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.

Thank you very much for the tips Dmitry. I would really apreciate it if 
you could send those scripts along. You can either post them here or 
send to my email account. webmaster at int-res.com

I have looked using the cronjobs as well but I liked the simplicity of 
the  w4x_backup solution. If it is as easy as you describr, I can 
certainly live with that.

I appreciate the help.

Nate