UNiTE, Remote CLI, eXtract Wizard

Wednesday, 10 February 2010 11:18 CST

johnsanders

Is there a server based version of Remote? A PHP app by chance?

I have a client who is trying to automate his backup process for his clients, but can't use either the desktop Remote client, or the php scripts that run via cron on the webserver. Reasons for both are long to explain.

My initial idea was to replicate the functionality of the desktop Remote app on a separate "backup" server. On this server would be a PHP-based XMLRPC client that initiates the backups on the various web servers out there, then pulls the backup files to itself.

Has anyone done this already, or are there plans in the Joomlapack dev world to offer this?

Any thoughts on the subject would be great.

Thanks,
John

Wednesday, 10 February 2010 14:33 CST

dlb

No, there is no such animal right now. There are plans to include some additional off site backup options in version 3. Backing up to a cloud server has been mentioned. That answer is a little vague, I'm the "press F5" guy, can't program a lick. Nicholas is the ideas guy. :D

Nicholas touches on some of the features in this blog post.

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Wednesday, 10 February 2010 14:50 CST

johnsanders

Thanks Dale. I had a feeling that was the case, but wanted to verify.

Is there a published API for the Joomlapack XMLRPC?

Thursday, 11 February 2010 02:00 CST

dlb

No API that I am aware of. You need to talk to Nicholas. :D

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Saturday, 13 February 2010 09:30 CST

nicholas

John,

There is no published API for Remote, but it's easy to read the plg_jpremote code as it describes the parameters to all calls.

Technically, what you're trying to do exists! It's the scripts generated by CRON Script Manager. Each of those scripts is actually just a configuration table which then loads croninclude.php. This latter file uses JSON to talk to the JoomlaPack installation and do the backup. Since the JSON service is embedded in the component it doesn't require setting up an XML-RPC plug-in. It's much more compact.

Here's the best deal you've ever had: croninclude.php can initiate a backup on any server, not just the one it's installed in! In fact, I was using this file long before the CRON Scripts Manager feature, on my Linux server, in CRON jobs which would run remote backups and download the archives to my own server. I think this is exactly what you want to do.

If you don't understand the comments in the code, send me a PM with your email and I'll try to explain every step of the process as better as I possibly can.

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Monday, 15 February 2010 12:04 CST

johnsanders

I see. That is precisely what I'm trying to do. It looks like, however, I'll have to modify the code to add a "download" postop feature. That's easy enough to do though. Thanks again, you guys are great.

Tuesday, 16 February 2010 00:45 CST

nicholas

You're welcome :D

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