On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Gandalf Parker wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > >> I've been trying to use PHP to create a backup script that would read >> filenames from a directory, then copy those filenames into a .zip file, then >> delete the original files. I wrote a PHP script to do this, but it seemed to >> spawn so many httpd child processes that the server load skyrocketed and >> users weren't able to get to our website. >> >> So my question is, what other options do I have for performing this sort of >> task? > > Im not seeing what the web interfacing is. Did you want to kick off this > script from the web? You dont have access to a cron file to have it run > at set times? > > But I think any language will handle what you want. Personally Id just > write it in shell script. It doesnt sound like it needs anything beyond > that. Or if it did then Id write it in Basic. Whatever you know. > > Gandalf Parker
I've solved a similar problem by running the php program as a daemon launched by cron and using a web page to give it work by creating a file in the /tmp directory. Of course the web page still has to run php to create the file. Chris _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech