I had been grappling with this problem since there is no straight forward backup website button in the godaddy’s control panel. PHP scripts seem to run into script timeouts or http timeouts because of the mammoth size of the website.
Heres the solution with help and information from:
http://www.bala-krishna.com/permission-denied-error-with-godaddy-cron-job
Bala Krishna has an excellent writeup on how to use the cron job on godaddy and to avoid the permissions error.
- Hence create a shell script file called sitebackup.sh
- Copy and paste the following:
/bin/sh tar -cvvf /$HOME/html/fullsite.tgz . - Save it.
- Upload to godaddy.
- Go into the control panel and locate the Cron Manager.
- Add a new Cron Job and Browse for the script you uploaded.
The backup should be created in the root of your web folder accessible via FTP or the web.
GoDaddy has new rules for running CRON jobs (see below).
So your script will have to be like this:
Bash: #!/bin/bash
tar -cvvf /$HOME/html/fullsite.tgz
The Command field is the script or executable that runs at a specified frequency. Click Browse to locate a file in your hosting account. The full file name of your selection is placed into this editable field.
Cron commands are typically script files that have executable permission and specify their interpreter as the first line of the file. For example, a first line of “#!/usr/bin/perl” directs the system to run the perl language interpreter for the file.
Your Shared Hosting account supports the following languages and associated interpreter lines:
* Perl: #!/usr/bin/perl
* Python 2.2: #!/usr/bin/python2.2
* Python 2.3: #!/usr/bin/python2.3
* Python 2.4: #!/usr/bin/python2.4
* Ruby: #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
* Bash: #!/bin/bash
The installed versions of PHP 4 and PHP 5 do not support the interpreter specification in a PHP file. In order to run a PHP script via Cron, you must specify the interpreter manually. For example:
* PHP 4: /web/cgi-bin/php “$HOME/html/test.php”
* PHP 5: /web/cgi-bin/php5 “$HOME/html/test.php5″
Note: In this example script, “$HOME” represents the full path to your Shared Hosting account. The actual path to your account will be provided if you select the script from your account using the Browse button.
great stuff here
To bad that they do not have their own backup system.
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I was having problems with this also. Instead of using php whatever, I just followed the info here http://www.fortasse.com/2010/01/tutorials/tutorial-automatic-backup-script/ and used a regular shell script instead. It is true, the rules have changed. I kept getting permission denied and undefined term errors. The post above along with yours seems to have helped a lot. Thanks!
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Great post. Backup is so important.
I am testing your idea right now. I hope it will work. I had a PHP script but I have many sites and it timed out..
Hmm… I got this:
sitebackup.sh: Permission denied
I suppose we cannot run such a script. Any other idea?
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