AutoBackup 1.03 Released!

Re: [Dave] AutoBackup 1.03 Released!

By aev - June 22, 2011

Hi Dave,

is it possible to use the "Program Name / Titlebar" field as the prefix?

If yes, how do we do that and how do we handle spaces and other special characters that might be in that field?

-aev-

Re: [aev] AutoBackup 1.03 Released!

By Dave - June 22, 2011

Hi aev,

You can specify any prefix you like on this line:

$GLOBALS['AUTOBACKUP_DEFAULT_PREFIX'] = 'my-backup';

And a quick hack to get the text only from the "program name / titlebar" might be:

$programNameTextOnly = preg_replace("/[^a-z]+/i", '-', $SETTINGS['programName']); // replace non-alphabetic chars with dash
$GLOBALS['AUTOBACKUP_DEFAULT_PREFIX'] = $programNameTextOnly;


Hope that helps!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [Dave] AutoBackup 1.03 Released!

By wcd - October 26, 2011

Hi Dave Ð

Can you explain what happens when a hacker sends a fake hostname and we get a backup file using a different domain? I noticed a bunch of these on one of our client sites today, and wanted to have an answer ready in case they ask us about whether this is a security issue.

Re: [multimedia_nj] AutoBackup 1.03 Released!

By Dave - October 26, 2011

Hi multimedia_nj,

It basically just creates an extra backup file and uses up some extra disk space, so there is no security risk.

Hackers have no way of knowing this is happening and aren't doing it intentionally, they're it's just a side-effect of automated penetration testing tools they're using. And they're likely not even targeting your client's website specifically, they just scan random websites.

Hope that helps! Let me know any other questions.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [Dave] AutoBackup 1.03 Released!

By nmsinc - November 7, 2011

Hi Dave,

I have never used the backup plugin and I have several websites on one VPS machine with a single IP address, does this plugin backup all SQL files on the server or just the SQL cms_name files for the domain?

Thanks

nmsinc
nmsinc

Re: [nmsinc] AutoBackup 1.03 Released!

By Jason - November 7, 2011

Hi,

The plugin will only backup the MySQL tables for that particular installation. Even if you had multiple CMS Builder installations running off of the same database, the plugin would only backup the tables specific to the installation it was activated on since each installation would have a separate table prefix.

Hope this helps
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