dedicated servers<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to back up a specific directory and all of it’s sub directories and save them in your backup FTP storage, organized by date.<\/p>\n1.<\/strong>\u00a0Download lftp using the command:\u00a0yum install lftp (CentOS) or apt-get install lftp (Debian and Ubuntu)<\/strong><\/p>\n2.<\/strong>\u00a0Have a directory in the root of the back up FTP named\u00a0“backup”<\/strong><\/p>\n3.<\/strong>\u00a0Modify the script bellow with your credentials and settings:<\/p>\n#!\/bin\/bash<\/code><\/pre>\n### FTP login credentials bellow ###<\/strong>
\nFTPU=”FTP-Username”<\/span>
\nFTPP=”FTP-Password”<\/span>
\nFTPS=”FTP-IP-Address”<\/span><\/p>\nNOW=$(date +”%d-%m-%Y”)<\/strong>
\n### local directory to backup ###<\/strong><\/p>\nFILE=\"\/DIR-to-Backup\"<\/code><\/pre>\n### Login to remote server ###<\/span>
\n### No need to edit any of the fields bellow ###<\/span>
\n### Default DIR is backup ###<\/span><\/p>\nlftp -u $FTPU,$FTPP -e “cd backup;mkdir $NOW;cd $NOW;mirror -R $FILE \/backup\/$NOW;quit” $FTPS<\/strong>
\n4.<\/strong>\u00a0Save the script as backup.sh and run “chmod +x .\/backup.sh” to make into an executable.<\/p>\n5.<\/strong>\u00a0run the back up script by typing\u00a0.\/backup.sh<\/strong><\/p>\nThe script can be scheduled as a cron job for automated backups on a specific frequency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","manualknowledgebasecat":[227],"manual_kb_tag":[255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/manual_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2353\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"manualknowledgebasecat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manualknowledgebasecat?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"manual_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb_tag?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}