Automatically download copy of site and email .zip?

[CLKeenan]

Is there a way I can develop a cron job of sorts that will download an entire copy of the site (it's pure HTML/images/css -- no database queries/php code/etc) and then automatically email that .zip file as an attachment to a mailing list.

Bonus points if it can be sent out whenever a change is made to any of the files within the site.

Simple solution (which is also ok) is to automatically zip up the file and store it in a publicly accessible place.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-Chris

P.S. Just to be clear, I have FTP/root access to the server.

 

[mattseh]

If I were to do this in python (it's the same in any other language I think), I'd find all files in the folder using the glob module. I'd then create a hash of each file (or maybe a has of all files concatenated together, but that'll use more memory). I'd then compare this to the last run. If different, I'd make the zip and email it.

 

[crackp0t]

You could just use rsync if you wanted to make an off site backup.