Perl Backup

[bigperm]

Ok, I want a perl script that backs up my site, and eiher tars it or zips it. All the scripts I find for that require that I know the path to tar/gzip/zip . My question is: How do I find those paths, and/or is there a better way to do that?

[akersche]

you could ask your web-space provider for the path or look into the faq, if you can find it there...

another way would be that you use telnet and look if you can find the file and get the path that way

or you could change the perl script, that it doesn't compress the files, which would need more space on the other hand...

Hope that helps you.

Greetings Arno

[bigperm]

I don't have telnet access, and my email to them about the path's of those has been unaswered so far. It's not in the faq.

And I don't know perl, so I can't change it, although not compressing it wouild be exaclty like copying every file onto my hard drive, so what's the point, right?