My hosting company uses php5… tried the switch and it does not work….

Question :

Is there a way to make this compatible for the latest version of php, if so how can this be accomplished..?

Thank you for your time.

I can only speak from my experience of Winzip 12, but it appears winzip no-longer support command-line functions as standard, you have to download the ‘WinZip Command Line Support Add-on’ that only supports the ‘Standard’ & ‘Pro’ versions (so you have to pay). Once you’ve installed WinZip 12 & the Command Line Add-on you will still get the error….you have to copy the file ‘WZZIP.EXE’ to both the directory the script resides in AND the temp file that your backups are created in.
You then have to change a couple of lines of code in the script to tell it to stop using the command ‘ZIP’ and start using ‘WZZIP’ (the code is set to always use ‘ZIP’ for windows systems regardless of what you put in the $COMPRESSOR variable:

Line 221 changes to:
exec( "wzzip $BACKUP_TEMP/$db.sql.zip $BACKUP_TEMP/$db.sql 2>&1" , $output, $res );

Line 256 changes to:
exec("wzzip $BACKUP_DEST/$BACKUP_NAME * 2>&1", $output, $res);

Line 377 changes to:
if (!is_dir($file) AND $file != 'WZZIP.EXE') {

I hope this helps anyone else with this problem.

P.S. Great script, thank you so much, saved me a lot of time writing my own

I am installing this script on a W2k3 box.
Everything seems fine exept the infamous “ZIP is not recognized as an internal or external command…” error.
I have included ZIP in the PATH: (C:\Program Files\WinZip\WINZIP32.EXE)

The config is like this:

// Path to the mysql commands (mysqldump, mysqladmin, etc..)
$MYSQL_PATH = ‘C:\MySQL\bin’;

// Mysql connection settings (must have root access to get all DBs)
$MYSQL_HOST = ‘localhost’;
$MYSQL_USER = ‘root’;
$MYSQL_PASSWD = ”;

// Backup destination (will be created if not already existing)
$BACKUP_DEST = ‘E:\80\backupdbs\db_backups’;

// Temporary location (will be created if not already existing)
$BACKUP_TEMP = ‘E:\80\backupdbs\tmp\backup_temp’;

// Show script status on screen while processing
// (Does not effect log file creation)
$VERBOSE = true;

// Name of the created backup file (you can use PHP’s date function)
// Omit file suffixes like .tar or .zip (will be set automatically)
$BACKUP_NAME = ‘mysql_backup_SCE’ . date(’Y-m-d’);

// Name of the standard log file
$LOG_FILE = $BACKUP_NAME . ‘.log’;

// Name of the error log file
$ERR_FILE = $BACKUP_NAME . ‘.err’;

// Which compression program to use
// Only relevant on unix based systems. Windows system will use zip command.
$COMPRESSOR = ‘bzip2′;

Does anyone have any idea what to correct?

Thanks in advance

If this is the case simply create db_backups amd tmp/backups_temp in the directory that the script is sitting. Be sure to chmod 777 them too.

I believe that I have the script set up correctly but I am having no success with it. Nice was not installed on the server so I have installed that. However, when the script is executed it is generating the following errors (one for each database):

> Processing Databases..
> sh: /mysqldump: No such file or directory
> DUMP FAILED
>
> DUMP FAILED
>
> sh: /nice: No such file or directory
> COMPRESSION FAILED
>
> COMPRESSION FAILED

(Repeated 10 more times - presumably one for each database)

and finishing up with:

Archiving files..
sh: /cd: No such file or directory
FAILED

FAILED

*** ERRORS DETECTED! ***
Check your email account ************** for more information!

Emailing backup to ******************* ..
PHP Warning: file_get_contents(): Unable to access /root/db_backups/mysql_backup_2008-08
-12.tar in /root/scripts/backup_dbs.php on line 303
PHP Warning: file_get_contents(/root/db_backups/mysql_backup_2008-08-12.tar): failed to
open stream: No such file or directory in /root/scripts/backup_dbs.php on line 303

There were errors!
Emailing error log to *************** ..
qmail-inject: fatal: unable to parse this line:
From: ************>MIME-Version: 1.0
FAILED to email error log.
FAILED to email error log.

(Despite the last few lines I am receiving an e-mail with the errors and an attached .tar file of 0 bytes).

I am running under Plesk which seems to be problematical for some.

Any help would be appreciated.