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Asked: 2026-05-28T00:22:41+00:00

$filename= Backup.tar; // The name (and optionally path) of the dump file $ftp_server =

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$filename= "Backup.tar";   // The name (and optionally path) of the dump file 
$ftp_server = "IP";      // Name or IP. Shouldn't have any trailing slashes and shouldn't be prefixed with ftp:// 
$ftp_port = "21";   // FTP port - blank defaults to port 21 
$ftp_username = "User";      // FTP account username 
$ftp_password = "Pass";      // FTP account password - blank for anonymous 
$filename = "public_html/backups/" . $filename . ".gz"; 

$command = "tar cvf ~/$filename ~/*"; 
$result = exec($command); 

$command = "gzip -9 -S .gz ~/$filename"; 
$result = exec($command);

This is my working backup that I use. It backs up everything on the server including emails (for example /mail/. I only want to backup the /public_html folder and all subdirectories under it. It creates a tar.gz file in the /public_html/backups/ folder. The PHP script also runs from the /public_html/backups/ folder. Any idea on how to restrict what is saved from ‘/’ to ‘/public_html/’ ? Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    you just need to change the third input of the tar command

    $filename= "Backup.tar";   // The name (and optionally path) of the dump file 
$ftp_server = "IP";      // Name or IP. Shouldn't have any trailing slashes and shouldn't be prefixed with ftp:// 
$ftp_port = "21";   // FTP port - blank defaults to port 21 
$ftp_username = "User";      // FTP account username 
$ftp_password = "Pass";      // FTP account password - blank for anonymous 
$filename = "public_html/backups/" . $filename . ".gz"; 

$command = "tar cvf ~/$filename /public_html/*"; 
$result = exec($command); 

$command = "gzip -9 -S .gz ~/$filename"; 
$result = exec($command);
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