Modx REVO backup addon / solution / options

Hi all - Do we have a good / easy and reliable backup solution for MODx REVO? I've struggled to find one which can work on shared hosting - things like shell scripts are being banned from shared hosting - Anyone any suggestions on a good solution - I'd ideally like something all bundled, so a client can login and just hit backup - then the Manager backs up the database and the file system and saves it as a zip in a backup folder...

Any suggestions?

Cheers,

dubbs.

The only thing I know of is this: https://modx.com/extras/package/backupmodx. I sounds like it's well-designed and will even back up a moved core folder, but it never got out of beta.

It does require MODX 2.3 or above, so there's a fair chance that it will still run.

Quote from: BobRay at Mar 11, 2018, 04:16 PM

The only thing I know of is this: https://modx.com/extras/package/backupmodx. I sounds like it's well-designed and will even back up a moved core folder, but it never got out of beta.

It does require MODX 2.3 or above, so there's a fair chance that it will still run.

Thanks Bob - yeh, I tried that - wont work on shared hosting solution as uses shell scripts that are not allowed...

Best I've found is codeguard, works out to $5 a month for single sites

https://www.codeguard.com/

You may be able to use something like this on a Cron job

https://github.com/gizalink/Backup-Website-PHP

Quote from: paulp at Mar 12, 2018, 02:55 AM

Best I've found is codeguard, works out to $5 a month for single sites

https://www.codeguard.com/

Thanks - will take a look - does this work with multiple different servers? e.g. central control panel to perform back ups on remote servers then?

Quote from: lkfranklin at Mar 12, 2018, 04:26 AM

You may be able to use something like this on a Cron job

https://github.com/gizalink/Backup-Website-PHP

Thanks - but not sure the client would be able to do this?

You could put it into a snippet and then use something like cron manager to fire it off every x days or you might be able to make a quick start button which takes them to a page which contains the snippet.

Thanks Bob - yeh, I tried that - wont work on shared hosting solution as uses shell scripts that are not allowed...

It depends on the host. I just checked and the shell_exec() command, which is what the extra uses, works fine on my shared account at A2 Hosting.

I just tested the command, though, not the extra.

Quote from: lkfranklin at Mar 12, 2018, 09:29 AM

You could put it into a snippet and then use something like cron manager to fire it off every x days or you might be able to make a quick start button which takes them to a page which contains the snippet.

OK thanks - theory sounds great - afraid though, I dont have the skills to create such a solution... Would you be interested in creating this as a small project? [ed. note: dubbs last edited this post 8 years, 6 months ago.]