Modx REVO backup addon / solution / options

Quote from: BobRay at Mar 12, 2018, 03:49 PM

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.

Thanks Bob - Uk2NET wont allow it...

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

Is this a safe and secure way of doing this? Also where do you add the credentials for the database etc to backup??> [ed. note: dubbs last edited this post 8 years, 6 months ago.]

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/

Codeguard looks very good - but a bit pricey - but spose you get what you pay for!

It's not difficult to create a backup extra. The trick, though, is to build in a restore method. IIRC, the old Provisioner extra did both backup and restore, but it's quite old and I think it's unlikely that it would still work.

Quote from: BobRay at Mar 17, 2018, 12:21 AM

It's not difficult to create a backup extra. The trick, though, is to build in a restore method. IIRC, the old Provisioner extra did both backup and restore, but it's quite old and I think it's unlikely that it would still work.

Thanks Bob - I will take a look. It’s really just filestore backup and SQL dB dump I need. Restoring a site would be another project itself!