Bluehost Hosting : How to Backup Site HTML Files and MySql Databases

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This is a bluehost question posted by HughKazoo on 01 July 2009

So it is apparent that bluehost does not do backups, and that if you do backups you cannot store them on your server.

Looking at a few other threads I am trying some cron jobs to backup my site daily. These are the two cron jobs I am trying (first try tonight):

date=`date -I` ; tar -zcf backup_$date.tgz ./public_html

That should backup the whole public_html folder into a .tgz file with the backup date in the filename.

That should backup the whole mysql database into a .gz file with the backup date in the filename.

Anyone know if this will work??

Anyone know an easy way to get these files from my hosting server space to my local computer? by email or by automated ftp?

IS THERE A BETTER WAY TO MAKE A RESTORABLE BACKUP OF MY WEBSERVER FILES AND DATABASE

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