Making a .zip file on a linux server

Hello. Is it possible, through the command line, to make a .zip file from a certain folder???
Thanks.

Yes, use the zip command. For more info, run the command: man zip

Thanks, but how would I do that for a cron job???

Add it to the crontab. For more info, run the command: man crontab

Would this work:

why don't you try it?
try it!

Ok, that doesn't work. How would I have it zip this folder: /home/nindoja/public_html/ into this folder /home/nindoja/mysqlbackup/???

ok as written above you should have read man zip
it says thatthe command is

zip archivename.zip filetoarchiv

to archive a directory you should type

zip -r archivename.zip dirtoarchive

this command works ...

then to add it to cron tab you type

crontab -e

and add
26 3 10 * * zip -r /home/nindoja/mysqlbackup/backup.zip /home/nindoja/public_html/

to execute the backup each 10th day of the at 3h26


nota benne: when you try a command that does not work you're not supposed to complain but to read the man file first, then to search the web for a tutorial and if only it is not enough ask for some help on a forum.

how come did you propose the command above:
if you have seriously read the man file and tried it .

Thanks. The reason that I didn't read man zip is because I am hosted, and don't have access to the command line.

how do you add a line to cron then?

I use CPanel 6.0

When I ran that on the commmand line, I got an e-mail from Cron, saying that the command wasn't found. Here is what I typed in the cron job:

use cpanel cron utility with its advanced unix style
make sure that you're dir mysqlbackup already exists and that you hav the zip utility.
try this command
zip -r ~/mysqlbackup/backup.zip ~/public_html

and set the integers to what you want (* is for each)

What is the zip utility???

ok I asked you if to ùmake sure that you have the zip package installed on your linux machine, and that you're allowed to use it.