Perl script using cPanel Public API 1.0 to perform automated full backup of entire site to external FTP server. Make sure cPanel::PublicAPI 1.0 is loaded.

fullbackup.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

use cPanel::PublicAPI;

my $config = {
    'folder_name' => '/Backup', # Change to the folder on your FTP server
    'ftp_host' => 'ftp.vmwaretips.com', # Change to your FTP server fqdn/IP
    'ftp_user' => 'username', # Change to your FTP username
    'ftp_pass' => 'password', # Change to your FTP password
    'ftp_port' => '21', # Change to your FTP port number
    'ftp_mail' => 'rick@vmwaretips.com', # Change this for backup completion alerts / debugging
    'version' => 'v1.0',
};

if( ! $conf_port) {
    $conf_port = "2083"; # Change to your cPanel port (2083 is SSL default)
}

my $cp = cPanel::PublicAPI->new(
    'user' => 'username', # Change to your cPanel username
    'pass' => 'password', # Change to your cPanel password
    'host' => 'vmwaretips.com', # Change to your fqdn where cPanel is running
    'usessl' => '1', # If using SSL leave this 1 (port 2083 is default)
    'debug' => '0' # Change to 1 to enable debugging
);

$cp->cpanel_api1_request('cpanel',
    {
        'cpanel_xmlapi_user' => $conf_user,
        'module' => 'Fileman',
        'func' => 'fullbackup'
    },
    {
        'arg-0' => 'ftp',
        'arg-1' => $config->{'ftp_host'},
        'arg-2' => $config->{'ftp_user'},
        'arg-3' => $config->{'ftp_pass'},
        'arg-4' => $config->{'ftp_mail'},
        'arg-5' => $config->{'ftp_port'},
        'arg-6' => $config->{'folder_name'},
    },
    'xml'
);

print "---";
print "\nYour backup will be stored in $config->{'folder_name'}/ - You will be notified at $config->{'ftp_mail'} when this process completes.\n";
print "---\n";