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Hello all,

I've just hacked together this perl script example to show you how to trigger backup creation via perl (and download it afterwards via ftp). It at least allows you to natively create (and schedule) backups in OSX (what i use) and linuxen.

Look at the code for configuration options.

Note: this is example code, a lot of stuff isn't implemented yet! This more or less is the first time in years i've dabbled in perl so the code isn;t really good/clean yet.

I plan on making it a multi-site perl backup solution for non-windows users (at some point in time, that is :) ). This means that i'll be updating this at (very) irregular intervals.

Obviously this won;t be supported by the Joomlapack team :)

And of course a few xml-rpc suggestions for the joomlapack team:
- create hash after creating backup, allows for correct download checking
- remove backup after download (saves space on server and prevents joompack backend pollution)

Have fun :)

Matt

Hi Nicholas,

I must agree with you on my first suggestion, didn't think of the load it would cause for the server. :)

What I meant with my second suggestion was that, when you remove the backup file with ftp (which i do in the script), the entry is still in the database. This "pollutes" the joomlapack backend with non existing backup entries in the list.

btw, the reason I chose perl in stead of php is that while perl is a more or less standard package in many linux/unix/osx distro's, php rarely is :) .

multi-site version almost ready btw.

Multi site version :) , uses strict too.

Still no error catching/reporting though.