Look no further, just by editing and uploading this php script to the home directing of your web server, you can have a automated backup solution for your cpanel.Requirements
1. Create a file called cpanel_backup.php and copy the below script in to the file<?php// Permissions on this file should be 600 // Place outside your public_html // ********* Configuration *********// Info required for cPanel access$cpuser = "cpanelusername"; // Username used to login to CPanel$cppass = "cpanelpassword"; // Password used to login to CPanel$domain = "domain.com"; // Domain name where CPanel is run$skin = "x3"; // Set to cPanel skin you use (script won't work if it doesn't match). Most people run the default x theme// Info required for FTP host$ftpuser = "yourusername"; // Username for FTP account$ftppass = "yourpassword"; // Password for FTP account$ftphost = "ftpipaddress"; // Full hostname or IP address for FTP host$ftpmode = "ftp"; // FTP mode ("ftp" for active, "passiveftp" for passive)$ftpdir = "/"; //Ftp directory sent to// Notification information$notifyemail = "user@domain.com"; // Email address to send results// Secure or non-secure mode$secure = 0; // Set to 1 for SSL (requires SSL support), otherwise will use standard HTTP// Set to 1 to have web page result appear in your cron log$debug = 1;// *********** Don't Touch!! *********if ($secure) {$url = "ssl://".$domain;$port = 2083;} else {$url = $domain;$port = 2082;}$socket = fsockopen($url,$port);if (!$socket) { echo "Failed to open socket connection... Bailing out!n"; exit; }// Encode authentication string$authstr = $cpuser.":".$cppass;$pass = base64_encode($authstr);$params = "dest=$ftpmode&email=$notifyemail&server=$ftphost&user=$ftpuser&pass=$ftppass&rdir=$ftpdir&submit=Generate Backup";// Make POST to cPanelfputs($socket,"POST /frontend/".$skin."/backup/dofullbackup.html?".$params." HTTP/1.0rn");fputs($socket,"Host: $domainrn");fputs($socket,"Authorization: Basic $passrn");fputs($socket,"Connection: Closern");fputs($socket,"rn");// Grab response even if we don't do anything with it.while (!feof($socket)) {$response = fgets($socket,4096);if ($debug) echo $response;}fclose($socket);?>2. After coping that make sure you edit only the variables that need to be changed3. create a cron job on the cpanel using the followingphp -q /home/username/cpanel_backup.php4. Make sure the file is not in the home directory and also the file is chmod to 600There you go, you now have a free and very reliable backup solution for your cpanel.
