Transfering database backups to another hosting account automatically
 

I found this thread/post (#7) from 2002.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...ite#post347352



I came from the DOS world, and know little about these types of things. Since my questions are so basic I started this thread in Chit Chat.

Currently I've got a CRON job making a back up daily, and am downloading the backup monthly to my home computer.

• After the backup is run I'd like the files name to be changed to reflect the date/time the back up is made.
• Then I'd like that backup to be transferred to another hosting account.
• Then periodically I would delete the backups from the other hosting account.

The goal is to be able to go back in time for the database kind of like a wayback machine, and of course back to the latest working database in case there are any problems with the database.



Do I write my own 'transferfile.php' text file with commands and call that with a CRON job?


Hostgator shared hosting, Jailed shell access, no root access.

I've been reading up on all sorts of things for a long time. My impression is the database backup files created using mysqldump are 'files' so having another web hosting account to store those files should be OK with most TOS restrictions.