cPanelBackup.sh

A script for downloading a backup of your cPanel hosted website.

Requirements

• curl >= 7.19.7
• GNU sed >= 4.2.1

Configuration

To setup the backup script create a configuration file named .cpanelbackuprc in your home directory. You can create a skeleton by executing the following command:

./cPanelBackup.sh | tail -n +6 > cpanelbackuprc && mv cpanelbackuprc ~/.cpanelbackuprc

Edit the created configuration and change the values according to your environment.

CPANEL_USER

Your cPanel username.

CPANEL_PASSWD

Your cPanel password.

CPANEL_HOST

URL of the cPanel site (e.g. http://domain.com:2082)

BACKUP_DIR

Path to the backup location. If the directory does not exists it will be created.

BACKUP_BASENAME

prefix for your backup files (e.g. domainname).

SED

Name of the GNU sed excecutable. This should be sed on the most systems. On Mac homebrew change to gsed.

REMOVE_OLDER_THAN

Number of days to keep old backups.