Hi all.

I would like to put together a PHP script which copies a specified folder and sends it to me via email.

This script will be accessed via cronjob and used to take a daily back-up of a specified folder.

When the back-up has been taken, i would also like the folder to be emptied.

Any ideas?

Why use php then.

your crontab could use tar to compress your folder and then mail you @ there < archive.tgz

30 01 16 * * /bin/tar -vczf /path/to/archive.tgz /path/to/dir-to-archive ; /bin/mail you@there < /path/to/archive.tgz; /bin/rm -rf /path/to/dir-to-archive/*

Simply

at 1:30 am on the 16 it will get your directory, archive it, mail it, empty it.

Ibbo

Didn't know that it could be done like that!

I'll give it a try. THanks.