This one used to backup our database and application. Its prepared for ftp. Later i'll put in the outo backup and ftp.
#File Name: makebackup.pl
#Author : Kumar Arjunan
#Nick : amyarjun
#E-Mail: amyarjun@yahoo.com

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Time::localtime;

#----------------GET TIME --------------------------
$| = 1;
sub now {
$tm = localtime;
($smin, $shour, $sday, $smon, $syear) = ($tm->min, $tm->hour, $tm->mda
+y, $tm->mon, $tm->year);
$f = sprintf ("%02d-%02d-%04d", $smon+1, $sday, $syear+1900, $shour, $
+smin);
return $f;
}

$g = &now;
print "\nThe Time NOW:\t $g\n";
print "\n-------ZIPPING DATABASE-------\n";
#----------------GET TIME --------------------------
$zipdbname = 'dbbackup'.$g;
$zipexnname = 'ExnCorp'.$g;
system "zip -r $zipdbname /var/lib/mysql/*";
print "\n-------DATABASE ZIPPED-------\n";
print "\n-------ZIPPING EXN-------\n";
system "zip -r $zipexnname /var/www/html/ExnCorp/*";
print "\n-------EXN ZIPPED-------\n";
$zipdbname = $zipdbname.'.zip';
$zipexnname = $zipexnname.'.zip';
system "chown dev:dev $zipdbname";
system "chown devftp:devftp $zipexnname";

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Edited by Chady -- added missing code tags.

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