Move Zpanel Default Backups Directory or Opendir Backups directory

Question

I'm working on a script which will upload all the zpanel backups to my Amazon S3 account. It works if I don't use the zpanel backups and create and upload backups created by me using CronJob.

The reason why I cannot upload the zpanel backup is I cannot figure out a way to reach the "backups" directory using php opendir function.

I know the absolute path of the backups folder though. And as it seems, this absolute path won't work with opendir()

I've used : opendir('var/zpanel/hostdata/my_username/backups/')

And it won't work. Now if I want to use the relative path, I cannot reach there either.

So, is there a way that I can move the zPanel Backups directory somewhere inside the public_html folder? Or, a web URL that can reach the backups folder? Ajaxplorer can reach there, why I cannot?

If none is possible, I'll greatly appreciate if someone can teach me a way to create backups exactly like zPanel (all DB + everything inside public_html folder).

The code looks like this

require_once('S3.php');

// Enter your amazon s3 creadentials
$s3 = new S3('xxxxx', 'xxxxx');

if ($handle = opendir('var/zpanel/hostdata/my_username/backups/')) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
        if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
            //echo "okay";
            echo $file; exit;

            if ($s3->putObjectFile("backups/$file", "my_basket", "$file", S3::ACL_PUBLIC_READ)) {
                    echo "<strong>We successfully uploaded your file.<br /></strong>";
                    //this will delete the file from your server after upload
                    //if (file_exists($baseurl . '/' . $file)) { unlink ($baseurl . '/' . $file); }
            }else{
                echo "<strong>Something went wrong while uploading your file... sorry.</strong>";
            }

        }else{
            echo "No file found here ".$root;
        }
    }
    closedir($handle);
}

Thanks a lot in advance!

dcro · Answer 1 · 2013-10-17T07:42:59.313

You have a typo in your code. If you want to use an absolute path with opendir, make sure it starts with a slash (/). So the correct version would be:

opendir('/var/zpanel/hostdata/my_username/backups/')

If you still can't get this to work, verify that the path you pass to opendir is indeed a directory and also verify the permissions on that directory to make sure your PHP process can read from it.

From the PHP doc,

If path is not a valid directory or the directory can not be opened due to permission restrictions or filesystem errors, opendir() returns FALSE ...

Also, if you use a any open-basedir restrictions in your php.ini or in your code, make sure the path you pass to opendir is not blocked by those restrictions.

Move Zpanel Default Backups Directory or Opendir Backups directory

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