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To avoid disasters and all bookings being lost, I feel there needs to be an off-site daily backup. I thought that emailing the pages in question to the tour operator at close-of-business each day would be the most logical.
Can I set up a Cron job, and if so - how?
Or, is there a better way of dealing with this issue?
Initially bookings (reservations) will be entered from his home computer or a local Travel Agent, via CMS.
To avoid disasters and all bookings being lost, I feel there needs to be an off-site daily backup. I thought that emailing the pages in question to the tour operator at close-of-business each day would be the most logical.
What exactly are you wanting to back up?
1. A copy of the pages on his site (i.e. pseudo static .html files)? Something like 'wget -m http://www.example.com/' would mirror the site for you.
2. The backend database powering the CMS. This could by MSSQL, MySQL, pgsql, bdb or flatfile data. This is easily done with cron.
3. The bookings made through the CMS. How are these bookings transmitted to the business? Email? How about CC:ing a copy to a secondary mailbox, on a different ISP?
While the Tour Operator is out conducting a tour, Travel Agent receives bookings and enters them into client's web site via CMS. After close-of-business, Tour Operator or wife take bookings at home and enter them to web site via CMS. At this point there would be some local "backup" in that the operator will also enter those details in his written diary. But there will not be any physical interaction between operator and Travel Agent most days. Client will view web page when he gets home (or later that evening) and then note details in diary.
I am trying to figure out how to backup the data entered by the Travel Agent so as to avoid data loss between the time the Travel Agent enters a booking and client views the site to extract data.
All suggestions welcome.
will there be sensitive customer data transferred in this manner (emailed?)
if so, there might just be an issue with sending that data thru unsecured means...
example - Would I be able to snatch that data on it's way to your email box? Customer info, credit card info, travel dates?
just a thought...
thanks!
