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How to create a zip-type backup of a large site on the server for quick synchronisation
My client has a sprawling joomla site consisting of thousands of files and I would like to download it to for setting up on my development machine. FTP-ing the site could take days!
The web hosting company has a function to creat a tar of the site folder but whenever I try to download and extract it it errors saying that the tar is corrupted.
I would like to know if there's a php script that can make a zip-type archive of the entire directory that can then be downloaded and unzipped on my local machine. I wrote a coldfusion script that can do this but this particular host doesn't support CF and I don't know how to do it in PHP.
I found a script called PHP Navigator that is suppoesed to do something like this but it doesn't......any ideas?
The web hosting company has a function to creat a tar of the site folder but whenever I try to download and extract it it errors saying that the tar is corrupted.
I would like to know if there's a php script that can make a zip-type archive of the entire directory that can then be downloaded and unzipped on my local machine. I wrote a coldfusion script that can do this but this particular host doesn't support CF and I don't know how to do it in PHP.
I found a script called PHP Navigator that is suppoesed to do something like this but it doesn't......any ideas?
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will try it out and let you know how it went, thanks
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I'm not very familiar with PHP.
Please could you give me an example of how to write a script to zip up a folder and its subfolders using this class
thanks
Please could you give me an example of how to write a script to zip up a folder and its subfolders using this class
thanks
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its a windows host and I I can't access the shell unfortunately
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I used cuteFTP to do the synch - several times faster than Dreamweaver - quite a relief
thanks for your advice though
thanks for your advice though