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Demo site file restore? - SOLVED!

Post by ranwilli » Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:02 am

I'm needing to do a demo site, and want to restore the site on an hourly basis because we'll be allowing Super Admin access.

I found a couple of threads here that address restoring the db (which were a God-send) but I haven't found anything relating to auto-restoring the complete file set.

Anybody know a reliable way to do that? (actually, ANY way to do that, I'll worry about reliable later.)
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Re: Demo site file restore?

Post by whitewidower » Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:09 am

couldn't you just cron a simple script that copies and places specific files from a storage directory?

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Re: Demo site file restore?

Post by ranwilli » Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:12 am

whitewidower wrote: couldn't you just cron a simple script that copies and places specific files from a storage directory?
uhhh, I guess I could, but honestly, I never did anything like that, and don't know where to begin. (I can set up a storage directory with the proper files, of course)

I guess it's time to dust off the php book and do some reading. :-[
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Re: Demo site file restore?

Post by whitewidower » Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:19 am

Here ya go.
This should get you started.


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Re: Demo site file restore?

Post by donnan » Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:29 am

I have a neat little cron script that you can call any page from a cron job set time.

Let me know if you need it.

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Re: Demo site file restore?

Post by ranwilli » Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:34 am

Thanks, guys, I appreciate it, but
whitewidower wrote: ...

I want to restore the entire Joomla fileset, can I do something like the old dos "copy c:/source/*.* c:/target " ?
Do I need to delete the fileset in the target area first?

Sorry if these are dumb!@# questions, I have always worked with a GUI on the linux server, wouldn't know the command line if it bit me.
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Re: Demo site file restore?

Post by donnan » Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:43 am

Can I ask a silly question?

Why would you need to change the complete fileset.  Is this to avoid any possibility of the files being hacked into?

I would have thought you would just need to delete the contents from the database.

Mate....what is your msn or yahoo messenger id?

Give me a yell over msn or yahoo messenger if you wanna chat about it. My handle is paul_askme2001'at'yahoo.com replace 'at' with @

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Re: Demo site file restore?

Post by whitewidower » Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:58 am

I was wondering the same thing. Perhaps just copy config files.
I guess some will change template css and such though.

But this will do what you are looking for.
Set the directory variable to your main storage directory.

http://fijiwebdesign.com/content/view/81/

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Re: Demo site file restore?

Post by ranwilli » Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:01 am

Thanks a lot! that should do nicely.

Since we're giving SuperAdmin, and there's gonna be a functioning copy of JoomlaXplorer and the PU database manager on board, we figure we'll redo it every hour, and sooner or later the script kiddies will go bother someone else.
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Re: Demo site file restore? - SOLVED!

Post by kerman » Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:01 am

Hi!

HAve anyone a ssh script to make this? I want to overwrite the entire httpdocs folder.

Thanks!

Edit: And if we can extract a gzip file directly to the folder, it will be great!!!

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Re: Demo site file restore? - SOLVED!

Post by johnkelly1900 » Fri Mar 11, 2016 4:50 am

I have a neat little cron script that you can call any page from a cron job set time.

Let me know if you need it.

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Could you please post this little cron script. I would like to check it out.


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