THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AS A COURTESY SERVICE, IN ALL CASES WE SUGGEST MANUALLY DOWNLOADING AND VERIFYING DATABASE BACKUPS
To make it work create a file called backup.sh and put the following code in it:
#!/bin/sh
mysqldump --opt -hDB_HOST -pDB_PASSWORD -uDB_USER DB_NAME > YOUR_WEB_ROOT/db_backup.sql
gzip -f YOUR_WEB_ROOT/db_backup.sql
tar czf YOUR_WEB_ROOT/web_backup.tgz YOUR_WEB_ROOT/web/content/
Place this file in your web root (as defined below) and create a cron job. Put the name backup.sh in the Command To Run Field, select Perl as the Command Language and then select when you want it to run.
In the script above everything in CAPS is something you need to replace. here is the descriptions of each:
YOUR_WEB_ROOT - This is the absolute path to your files. You can find this under Serverside paths that is in Wesites & Email -> Site -> Features. An example would be: /mnt/target02/123456/www.whatever.com
(notice that /web/content is not included in that path)
DB_HOST - Database Host an example would be mysql5-9.wc1
DB_PASSWORD - the password on this database
DB_USER - the database username
DB_NAME - the name of the database you are backing up
