Comments on: Create custom backups from your website using cURL

By: Olaf

Olaf — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:36:18 +0000

Gurpreet Singh,

I don’t know, is there some information on the cURL website? and do you checked the php manual?

By: Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:29:18 +0000

Hello,

Thanks for creating and sharing such a brilliant and helpful article.

My situation is that I am creating an application for my client, through which he can upload hi website directory to a remote server. I have used your code in building the application.

While testing I came to know that the code is working on only a specific version of CURL. If the CURL version is 7.10, then it doesn’t work. But if the version is 7.17, then the files are uploaded.

My client is having different web servers to host his websites. And the version of CURL is not the same on each one of them.

Can you throw some light on it, as how to make it version independent?

By: Shafaat Awan

Shafaat Awan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:41:26 +0000

Though DB backup can be taken from web control panel, but this can be in help full in different situations.

Thanks for sharing this.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:12:43 +0000

Hi Matt,

creating (bigger) zips takes much more server resources…

if my directadmin server is processing the backups the server becomes very slow…

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:07:57 +0000

Well if you are worried about a high server load due to multiple cURL connections, why not write a script that compresses the files into a zip first, then it could move the zip over to the backup server. You could even name the zip with a time stamp so u have various backup versions on your backup server.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:35:42 +0000

…oeps, I forgot to upload the file. It’s fixed right now!

By: Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:30:34 +0000

The link to the zip file id not working anymore. I need to download the code. Can you please tell me where can I find the code?

By: Olaf

Olaf — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:39:33 +0000

@corbyboy,

you’re absolutely right, bad enough that the php curl extension is so limited. The curl lib you can use via the command line has much more features. For example you can upload multiple files with one connection

By: corbyboy

corbyboy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:44:02 +0000

Great article.
In my opinion, cURL is one of the most under-appreciated features of PHP. It is so powerful.

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