SMF auto Backup

[engrz]

Is there any way to auto backup of all files and database of smf forum to computer or dropbox? my web host not allowed to backup after 20GB and i have crossed 60GB of data. so how to control and backup online data?

[Illori]

how does your host block you from doing a backup of over 20gig? i have no idea how they can block your access to your files especially if they are the one to give you that size in the first place.

that is the size of your files right? not your database...

[engrz]

yes that is the size of my files.

they have a policy that if my disk-space increases the 20GB i will be out from auto backup services.

[Illori]

so they dont back it up. that does not mean you cant back it up manually yourself.

[engrz]

I can back up, but as i mentioned it is reached 60GB, so i need any mod/plugin for auto backup. because i can not daily backup a such data manually.

[HDB]

I use Drop My Site. They offer several backup plans.

https://www.dropmysite.com/

[engrz]

I use Drop My Site. They offer several backup plans.

https://www.dropmysite.com/

it has too expensive plan for 100GB and more.

[Antes]

Actually it would be far better to off-load some of the content to places like Google Drive - Dropbox (or mega.co.nz).

[Kindred]

there is no mod or plugin for auto backup.

install your own and run it via cron script

[Xarkurai]

If you're handy with servers you could go with DigitalOcean, they ask 1$/month extra for having an automatic backup every 2-3 days without a limit I believe. You'll have to manually set up your server with php, apache and mysql though.

[aegersz]

I manually rsync the live html files and the latest database backup to a dev mirror site on my intranet with a single command.

just backup your database often with cron and mysqldump.

my whole site gets imaged once a week but I like my local site as it works as a forum mirror, and I can then image that by myself with Clonezilla.

[yaax]

I can recommend you to use linux build feature LVM snapshot - it is specially build in for backups feaure. This will not cause cpu load like mysql dump and will take one moment only.
You can read more here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html
It is possible to run such snapshots automatically by cronjobs and it will be auto backup

[engrz]

thank you for suggestions, actually more downloads from attachments make me happy that is why i use more attachments on my forum so that i can see users are downloading.

is there anyother way to reduce diskspace, but use my attachment feature.

[Kindred]

not easily....

[engrz]

not easily....

Difficult is also ok, but how?

[Kindred]

you would have to get another server/hosting plan and then redirect all called for the attachments to the second server...  but this would not work on a shared plan, you'd have to have dedicated server(s)