Can someone quickly write a script that i can setup with crontab..

i need it to `tar -cf /home/admin/backup.tar /home/sites/` then FTP /home/admin/backup.tar to ftp.server.com , user, pass, dir/backup-$TODAYS_DATE.tar............ill specify the ftp info once i get it, but please help people,i could do this in PHP but i dont know of any way to run it , as to crontab can just `perl /dir/to/this/script.pl`


---thx everyone, if you need i can hook you up with hosting, 100mb, 2gb tansfer (no free domain, sorry) unlim ftp, subdomains, cgi/php, etc.




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I wasnt sure what forum to put this in, so please move it if its not in the right one :):-D

HAve a look at this: http://reoback.penguinsoup.org/

From the look of your requirements, this script will do everything you need + more.

Hope this helps :)

im so sorry, im looking for something extremely small, like 20-30 lines of code,

Originally posted by KaOtiC MiNd
I could do this in PHP but i dont know of any way to run it , as to crontab can just `perl /dir/to/this/script.pl`

You do know that you can run php scripts like:
php /dir/to/this/script.php
if you have binary install of php? Right?
You can test by just typing that line in shell.

ok, thanx alot, i just found that out about 5 minutes before i checked this, i was thinking of perl, and then well, why isnt there a "php" function like "perl" and i tested it, and there was, so thx !!!