Suggestions for backing up php site and mysql db

Question

do you have any good suggestions how to backup remote php site and mysql, and upload it to another remote ftp? I do have shell access and it is linux system.

Kind of lam

Answer 1

Use mysqldump do dump the DB into a "data" directory within the site.
An alternative would be SELECT INTO OUTFILE if you already have the SQL scheme stored somewhere.

Use tar to pack up the website contents.

tar -xvf site.tar

Use FTP, SCP, SFTP, etc to transfer that to the new location, unpack, then depending on how the DB was dumped restore the DB and give it a whirl.