How To Compete Limited Godaddy File Manager Archiving Tool

In one of my successful posts I have talked about how to Unzip a Compressed File on PHP Server, and how I did it by a nice script that I found. On this post I am going to tell you about another valuable script that I found, the script simply backup your website and provide you a link to download it to your computer, this could be used for different reason when you develop websites.

You can use this script in two ways, the first on is to Fully Backup your website Code, and the other use will be when you decide to move your website to another hosting and compete Godaddy file manager limited archiving file size.

Over the last few days I’ve been working on some online project, it was a dynamic website, using one of those CMS open source code that I love to work with. I was having a testing hosting server for my client’s website, now it’s ready to go online and to be published on the client’s hosting server account.

Unfortunately I couldn’t backup all files on the server, Godaddy file manager is limited to archive 20 megabits only and the website code exceed this size. It’s more than 30 megabits. Of course I could go for compressing folder by folder, but this will take the whole work day rather than doing mistakes and you start over and over again.

Finally I found the solution for this problem thanks to Web Hosting Hero and it’s Great Hosting Tutorials.

Go a head and Download Godaddy Backup Zip Archive Utility.

Although this script was originally developed to backup my GoDaddy website, it can probably be used with any Linux / Unix web host.

How To Use The Backup Script

1. Extract the PHP file from the Zip Archive Utility to your local drive.
2. Edit sitebackup.php using a non-formatting text editor such as Notepad.
3. Enter the password you wish to use to protect the script and save the file.
4. Upload sitebackup.php to the root of your website through FTP.
5. Open your web browser to http://www.yourwebsite.com/sitebackup.php
6. Enter your password in the text box and hit the Backup button.
7. Do not close your browser window. When the backup has completed you will see a link to download it.
8. Once you’ve downloaded the backup, delete fullsite.tar.gz from your website using your favorite FTP client.

If you work with server a lot, then maybe you would like to check this Tool to Extract ZIP Files on FTP Server using PHP.

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