Update: A newer version of the script is available.
This script allows you to easily back up your WordPress blog to an FTP server. It’s actually a modification of my WordPress Backup to Amazon S3 Script, but instead of saving the backup to Amazon S3, it uploads it to an FTP server. Another update is that now the SQL dump includes the database creation instructions, so you don’t need to create it manually before restoring from the backup.
Although I’ve written it with WordPress in mind (to create backups of my blog), it isn’t WordPress-specific. It can be used to back up any website that consists of a MySQL database and files. I’ve successfully used it to back up a MediaWiki installation.
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