Cron Jobs

[royalbun]

Hello,
I am trying to write a cron job script that would temporarily archive my data, mail them to me, and then delete what ever archive created:

#!/bin/bash

#Make an archive of public_html
tar czf ~/backups/backup/html.tgz ~/public_html

#Make a back up of SQL database
mysqldump --opt -Q -u database_user --password='password' database_name | gzip > ~/backups/backup/SQL.gz

#Put them both in a nice package
tar czf ~/backups/backup.tgz ~/backups/backup

#mail it to me
mutt -a ~/backups/backup.tgz -s "File attached" -- email@address.com

#delete all files created
rm -rf ~/backups/*

The script doesn't work, and without a terminal, I have no idea what is wrong with it. I plan to run it monthly, but for testing purpose, I am making it run daily right now:

Any help?

 

[bdistler]

The script doesn't work, and without a terminal

the only way a user of x10hosting's free-hosting can set a Cron job - is from [ cPanel-x3 ] theme's home page (not x10hosting Basic)

x10hosting's free-hosting accounts have no SSH

 

[essellar]

The main problem is that you don't have shell access. PHP is all you have to work with on the Free Hosting servers.

 

[royalbun]

The main problem is that you don't have shell access. PHP is all you have to work with on the Free Hosting servers.

Oh, OK. Is there a list of what are the commands I can use? Can I use like wget or something that invokes a restful address?

 

[pus]

Alternatively, you can use an online cronjob service to trigger the cron job (URL version) for you, e.g. http://www.easycron.com/.