Absoblogginlutely

w.zip is updated because hasweb changed their control panel skin. for those of you who don't use the same skin as hasweb, just change the line http://%domain%:2082/frontend/x/backup/index.html to the correct path for your backup screen in control panel.

http://absoblogginlutely.net/cpanelbackup/w-1.3.zip is the latest version updated to include backups of crontab jobs
Main page for this program is at http://absoblogginlutely.net/cpanelbackup for further documentation and a mailing list at http://absoblogginlutely.net/mailman/listinfo/cpanel.backup_absoblogginlutely.net so you can get updates to this program

I was wondering if there is a way to exclude directories with this backup?

nope, as I get the cpanel zipped version of all files in the account directory - now if you can get cpanel to ignore a directory...... (I must admit it would be nice to ignore my images directory sometimes!)

Very Helpful, got this set up easily and makes me sleep a little easier now. Made 2 different versions of the w.bat file, one to download the website and one to just download the sql files (which I schedule more often then the main download, of course). For anyone who wants to know:

To just do SQL directories, I added:
-X/getbackup,/getaliasbackup,/getfilterbackup

to the 'get full backups' line.

Also, to save about 30k per download, I added this to that same line:
-Rgif,ico,txt,css

Thanks again!

in w.bat, exactly where do you put the user, password and domain? It says after the name of the batch file, but woulodn;t it go in the folling lines?
set user=%1
set pass=%2
set domain=%3

ie change to:
set user=theusername
set pass=thepassword
set domain=thesite.com

Also,

where someone has said "To just do SQL directories, I added:
-X/getbackup,/getaliasbackup,/getfilterbackup
to the 'get full backups' line."

could you please post the exact line after the change?

Thanks!

Andrew, no the passwords are passed as commandline parameters. This way I don't have to get you to edit the batch file and have the possibility of you accidentally incorrectly editing it. if you want to hard code your own password etc in, then by all means replace those three lines as you suggested.

The full backup line would become
..\wget -r -l 1 --http-user=%user% --http-passwd=%pass% http://%domain%:2082/frontend/x/backup/index.html -X/getbackup,/getaliasbackup,/getfilterbackup

Thanks for the info!

One more question in regard to this line in the batch file:

rd /q /s %domain%_2082

what exactly is this line doing? removing a direcory?

yes - deleting the directory absoblogginlutely.net_2082 which is created when you download (and contains data I don't actually need such as the images on the control panel page)

For ppl that wish to find out more about
Website Mirroring With wget,

or to obtain wget 1.9.1 and ssllibs 0.97,

this is a good read:

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Web-Services/Website-Mirroring-With-wget/

I have this working to an extent that all files are downloaded

When it tries to move the backup files from the temp dir I get an error 'system cannot find specified file'

Any ideas appreciated

Found on my XP system using the latest wget

for /d %%a in (%domain%_2082\*backup) do move %%a ..\%finalbackupdir%

need to change the _ to a +

Have you tried the BOS software?
www.bos.co.il

hi..
is it possible to backup all the sites using cpanel's root password

I updated this script after it broke at a customers site due to a slightly different page layout. I discovered that the script was also retrieving the logout link, logging out wget and therefore subsequent retrievals would not work.
In the process of debugging this script I also made the page slightly more robust in that it ignores robots.txt and uses a fake browser agent, and friendlier to the download agent in that it waits 2 seconds between downloads.
Use the following line in w.bat
wget -w 2 -r -l 1 -erobots=off -U "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux)" --http-user=%user% --http-passwd=%pass% -Rgif,ico,txt,css,html --exclude-directories /logout http://%domain%:2082/frontend/x/backup/index.html

This should all be on one line.