Support/Comments for BkupMODx

Quote from: rossco at Jun 23, 2008, 07:21 AM

I set the MB to 400 for both, 600 seconds just to give it time and set compression to no for both. Also in my php.ini file i set the memory to 50M.

I assume you are backing up the entire site(s). Does it work when you try to backup a smaller set of directories?

The backup is now working really nice. Is there a way to schedule backup from windows task scheduler?

George.

Quote from: davisambrose at Jul 01, 2008, 01:51 PM

The backup is now working really nice. Is there a way to schedule backup from windows task scheduler?

George.

I’m glad to hear it’s working well for your website.

I’m not aware of a way to schedule the backup if you have username/password prompted by Apache .htaccess authentication. I don’t recommend installing BkupMODx without authentication of some type. If you have security in place and can deal with it programatically then you could go directly to http://your_domain.tld/backup/bkup_create_frame_start.php to run the backup process.

I’m working on the next version. The newest enhancement is built-in login security based on PHP session cookies. This will enable users that don’t want or can’t use alternate authentication methods like Apache’s .htaccess/.htpswd functions to have secure BkupMODx installations.

My concept is to control the login functions via the common config file. Some of the controls are to enable/disable login security, control login timeout by session or minutes, and allow multiple user/pswd combinations.

So far it seems to hold up well on the Linux development platform!

v1.7 just released!

* Added security with username/password login

* Updated verify screen to display compress setting

* Standardized menus on all screens

* Improved zip process to include empty directories

* Refactored code to validate as W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Upgrade and new installation instructions in README.txt.

Enjoy!

Hey Chuck. All my zips are corrupt even on sites that are 30mb. I’m sure I have my settings correct. What could be the problem?

This is happening with compression on or off.

! bkup_20080707_040424.zip: The archive is either in unknown format or damaged

What OS and what program are you using to unzip the files with? The PclZip compression class has an FAQ item saying that WinZip 6.0 does not recognize the compression format but Winzip 8.0 does for example.

I’m using vista ultimate (cough) and the latest version of winrar.

PclZip formats the zip file using DEFLATE (compression method : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE

I currently use 7-Zip on Windows 2000 and XP Pro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip which works fine.

I’m not familiar with WinRAR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR but it looks like it’s as good or better than 7-Zip.

It could be the web host’s implementation of PHP ZLIB which is a requirement for PclZip. You can see the settings with phpinfo(). Or it could be Vista which I have little to no experience with.

I can use local php.ini files on my hosting so which setting am I looking for in the PHPinfo?