How to Implement unattended automatic backup on Web servers (1)

BKJIA exclusive original] An accident occurs on the Web server, such as a network virus or Trojan attack, or hardware damage on the server host. To restore the Web server to normal in the shortest time, the most effective method is to restore the previously backed up Web server data directly. However, this method requires us to back up important data on the Web server in a timely manner. Unfortunately, many network administrators cannot manually back up Web servers every day because they have a lot of work at hand. Especially during work hours, many network administrators do not have time to stare at their Web servers, in this article, we recommend an unattended method to automatically back up important data on Web servers, in this method, you only need to use a tool named "Green Environment FTP data backup" to easily implement automatic backup for Web servers.

Create a Web server Backup Task

When performing automatic backup, you need to use the "Green Environment FTP data backup" professional tool. Therefore, we should first download and install the tool program from the Internet, then, run the "Green Environment FTP data backup" program file from the downloaded data compressed package to open the main operation interface of the corresponding program, on this page, we can create and manage various data backup tasks.

When creating a Web server backup task, you can first click the "FTP backup" option in the menu bar on the main program interface and execute the "add FTP Backup Task" command from the drop-down menu, open the FTP Backup Task Setting Dialog Box shown in 1:

In the "Task Name" text box of the Setting dialog box, set a proper name for the backup task to be created, assume that the newly created FTP Backup Task is named "backup Web server ";

Then, at the FTP option location, we need to correctly enter the IP address or domain name address of the target Web server for data backup in the "domain name or IP address" text box, then, in the "username" and "password" text boxes, enter a valid account for logging on to the target Web server. If we are using a VM account, you can enter the FTP access account that the ISP provides to you. If the target Web server is set up in the LAN of your organization, then we can use tools such as Serv-U to create an FTP access account with proper permissions from the row. In addition, the communication port 21 is required for FTP data transmission by default. Therefore, we must activate port 21 on the target Web server. Otherwise, the "Green Environment FTP data backup" tool cannot work normally.

After confirming that the preceding parameters are entered correctly, click the "Connect" button on the page. The system screen displays the prompt message 2 indicating the connection to the target Web server ), at the same time, all the data content in the target Web server is displayed on the local screen, so that we can select the source directory for data backup; then, you also need to click the Browse button in the "target directory" text box to set the Web server data to a local folder in the pop-up file browse dialog box. Generally, we can select a hard disk with a large space on the local computer, and then create a folder specifically used to save the Web server data.

If the FTP connection fails, the "use passive mode connection" option is not selected, because FTP connections in passive transmission mode can easily solve the problem that data connections from Web servers to common clients are forcibly filtered by various firewalls. Of course, some FTP transmission software does not support passive mode connections, so when we find that we cannot create an FTP connection to the target Web server, we can try to select the "use passive mode connection" option.