(see https://github.com/Unispezi/CPanelRemoteBackup/wiki/Home/ for most current version of this file)

This is CPanelRemoteBackup, a tool to backup web sites which use cPanel as their administrative interface.

CPanelRemoteBackup will start a full backup in cPanel. Once the backup is finished, it will be downloaded, verified, and deleted on the server.

• Runs on any machine
• Can easily be started at regular intervals by any scheduler (CRON, Windows Scheduling Tools)
• Setup free (if Java is available), no hassle with setting up your own FTP server where cPanel can put the backup file. Just run the tool, wait, and find the backup file on your machine
• Will not eat up storage space on the server because the backups are deleted when they are downloaded

For this to work, you need

• a local Java installation
• Username and password to log in to the cPanel web interface and to the FTP server of your web site
• Sufficient free space in the home directory of your web site (cPanel will put the backup there)
• Sufficient free space in the output directory to hold the backup

Example:
java -jar CPanelRemoteBackup-1.0.jar -user someusername -password somepassword mysite.mydomain.com c:/backups

Will log on to the given homepage, trigger a backup, and put it in c:\backups .

Output will look something like this:

Starting CPanel backup
Polling for backup we just started..: backup-5.6.2012_09-01-42_mysite.tar.gz
Polling for backup file size to become stable....: 352024131 bytes
Downloading backup-5.6.2012_09-01-42_mysite.tar.gz to c:\backups\backup-5.6.2012_09-01-42_mysite.tar.gz
Downloaded 352024131 bytes successfully
Verifying downloaded file ...OK
Deleting backup-5.6.2012_15-00-25_kadampak.tar.gz on server
Done.

Run
java -jar CPanelRemoteBackup-1.0.jar -help
for a list of options

• Java Development Kit (JDK)
• maven

Then just run mvn package

In target you'll find an uber-jar, i.e. a JAR which contains the application logic plus all libraries it relies on.

CPanelRemoteBackup may be used under the MIT license:

Copyright (C) 2012 Carsten Lergenmüller

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this 
software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software 
without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, 
merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to 
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following 
conditions:

    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all 
    copies or substantial portions of the Software.
    
    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, 
    INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A 
    PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT 
    HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION 
    OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE 
    SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.