I have a server running Linux that at the moment I have 4 backup scripts running in the cron.daily folder. Is it possible and if so how easy would it be to put these scrips in a folder on my website(different box), then call them from the Linux box to be run on there.
TIA
Maybe more info would be usefull (I still do not understand if you are talking about 2 or 3 different systems) (and you do not tell which web-server software, Apache?).
Anyway this looks like server-side scripting. Often done as CGI-scripts. Or by using PHP scripts. Look in the documentation of your web-server software.
AND think about the security implications. You do not want to let everybody run your backups?
Thanks hcw.
Theres a lot of politics behind why i need to do it like this.
Basically i think im going to do something then not get paid for it. so I’m trying to keep this out of other peoples hands.
Right the situation is Server A has got opensuse, apache,mysql, and moodle running on there. And at the moment it has 3 scripts in the cron daily folder. One makes a mysql dump of a database, one copies the moodle softwear and makes it into a zip file and the other does the same for the moodle data. All this puts the files in a back up folder on the root of server A. Which i would then take a copy of.
What I want to know is could the scripts reside on server B and be called from server A.
It would also be great if instead of the backed up files been put on the root of Server A they could go to server B
Scripts that now run on web/MySQL server A can run on system B, but then they will try to make backups from system B on system B. I think this is already understood by you.
You could in principle make scripts on system B that download files from A to be backed up on B (using e.g. rsync). And those scripts could be started from A (but why, you could start them from B’s crontab). But on A you still needed the other side of the transport (in the case of rsync the rsyncd, via xinetd). And A would not out of itself start the dump of the database, etc. and these still must run on A.
Hope this helps a little bit to get your ideas sorted out.