DarkGizmo Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 So i moved back to IP.Board but re-started from scratch after my old DB was bugged out and whatnot. I would like to have a daily backup EMAILED to me each day, is there a way to get a cron job set up so that the database backup gets emailed to me each day at a certain time? Say midnight or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I don't know of any way to do this myself, however, you can have something setup so you can take backups at a certain point everyday, then you just need to visit a particular page in your cPanel and the backup will download locally to your computer. Backups are small aswell as I believe they're text-only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nathan Posted May 22, 2012 Administrators Share Posted May 22, 2012 Absolutely you can do this, but not all from the cron job setup page. You have to call a php file from your cron job code. Here is a tutorial, let me know if you need help setting it up. http://www.theblog.ca/mysql-email-backup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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