Rackspace Cloud Sites Backup Cron

This set of scripts automatically backs up your Rackspace Cloud Sites and database to Cloud Files


Copyright (C) 2010  emotive, llc

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INSTALL

Edit backup.sh

* Replace MYSQLHOSTNAME with your MySQL Hostname (Internal IP for Racksapce)
* Replace MYSQLUSER with your MySQL database user
* Replace MYSQLPASSWORD with your MySQL password
* Replace MYSQLDATABASE with your MySQL database name

Then do a find and replace for 'YOURSITEPATH' and replace that with the path to your /web/ folder on your site.  This can be found in your features tab of Cloud Sites.  For example:

/mnt/stor1-wc1-dfw1/375570/452262/www.yourdomain.com/web/


Next edit backup.php

* Replace RACKSPACELOGIN with your master Rackspace user ID
* Replace APIKEY with your Rackspace API key (found under Your Account in control panel)
* Replace CLOUDCONTAINERNAME with the container in Cloud Files where you want backups to reside
* And like above replace YOURSITEPATH with your path up to /web/

Save the files and upload the entire backup folder to your /web/ folder


Now setup the cron jobs in your cloud site under the Features tab

You need to first run backup.sh then wait an hour and run backup.php

For CRON 1:

* Set the name and e-mail address for output to whatever you want
* Set the type to perl
* Set the command to run to web/backup/backup.sh
* Set the frequency and run time (every day at 1am recommended)

For CRON 2:

* Set the name and e-mail address for output to whatever you want
* Set the type to php
* Set the command to run to web/backup/backup.php
* Set the frequency and run time (every day at 2am recommended)