I was wondering which of the backup method has the fastest restoration time - is it incremental uncompressed backup or compressed backup?
I am making 2 daily backup which is both uncompressed and compressed. However in case my server broke down, I want to choose which one is the fastest?
Would like to know what are the dangers of backing up and restoring full entire system backups (with plesk installed) to another server with a different ip address? Will the restored plesk setup operate properly and offer an ip address change in the system, or will there be any pre-requisites required such as manual ip changing within the system core files?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using rsync to backup my cpanel/whm VPS data to a remote backup server.
Is there any inherent problem in bypassing the built in cpanel/whm backup feature, the cpbackup script, and just usign a cron with rysnc to sync the /home directory of my VPS to the backup server?
I want to make sure that there's not a security issue doing it this way, and that there is no later on restore problem by doing it this way.
I have two folders:
/misc
/misc-backup
how do I go about making /misc-backup a mirror of /misc correctly?
last night my server did not take a full backup of all accounts. i have new backup files for some of them and have not anything for the rest.
i just want if cpbackup have any log file or if i can set it to log errors somewhere that i can track them?
I have run /scripts/cpbackup bymistake and now how I can stop the process?
View 3 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone have experience in backing up mysql incrementally? From what I've read in the docs it's possible using the binary logs but I haven't been able to find a good resource on how to make this work.
I have a database that is over 5GB. There are a few Myisam tables that are insert/select only and one innodb table that receives updates/deletes/selects/inserts.
Ideally I wouldn't have to backup the 5GB every night, I'd prefer to only get the items that have changed. If I could make this work, then I could also get backups more often rather than once a night.
I've a question about cpbackup.
On certain days web server starts taking both weekly and daily backups.
Is there anyway I can arrange such that when there is a day for weekly backup, it doesn't take daily backup.
Kind of a newb question but when I go into my cpbackup folder, then for example, into my daily folder..I see a number of accounts in there. Some are shown as only "accountname" and then some are shown as "accountname.0"
What is the difference between them? Are the ones that end in .0 currently active accounts on the server?
Thanks
I was wondering if I would be better to use incremental backup in cpanel instead of disabling the incremental feature and having tar.gz backup.
Im doing ssh overnigth on an offsite server.
Gzip is -rsync tagged when activated, as per this ccron command:
Quote:
0 1 * * * export GZIP="--rsyncable" ; /scripts/cpbackup
so they should be rsync friendly?
Whats your tougth on this?
do incremental backup on my local hard disk but i would use backup compression, is there any way to tar each account and use incremental system? i have read something on GZIP --rsyncable
View 1 Replies View RelatedFor some odd reason, I don't see the mysql folder inside /backup/cpbackup/daily/server/
It contains .sql files of the databases associated with that account. On other accounts, I see the mysql folder. Just this one is missing.
It used to be there and I see the mysqldump command running while cpbackup is running.
My server was running a cronjob backup, and my apache always fail
root@b# service httpd restart
/etc/init.d/httpd restart: httpd not running, trying to start
/etc/init.d/httpd restart: httpd started
root@b# service httpd restart
/etc/init.d/httpd restart: httpd not running, trying to start
/etc/init.d/httpd restart: httpd started
root@b# service httpd restart
/etc/init.d/httpd restart: httpd not running, trying to start
/etc/init.d/httpd restart: httpd started
I can only restart them on my CPanel WHM
Attempting to restart httpd
Waiting for httpd to restart.... . . . . . . . . . . finished.
httpd status
root 5805 0.8 0.9 21092 19504 ? S 22:39 0:00 /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/bin/whostmgr ./reshttpd
root 1012 4.0 0.6 23348 13828 ? Ss 22:39 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
httpd started ok
root@b# service httpd restart
/etc/init.d/httpd restart: httpd restarted
We have incremental backups running in our server. We want to move the cPanel accounts to a new cPanel server and restore in that server. The Backup Restore option in WHM will recognize only compressed backups (like .tar.gz) when it is placed in the /home directory. So how do I do about restoring a incremental backup through the WHM of the new server?
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy server load on my server is very high, but my server is not slow, my memory usage is fine, my CPUs are handling everything fine so it's not really a problem... except I've got a lot of "sleeping processes" which seem to increase the server load but not affect the server really.
My problem is, cpbackup refuses to run when it decides the server load is too high. So, is there a way to make it run no matter what the server load is? Because I do want backups to run again...
The server load never goes down because these things are always running, so running it at early hours of the morning doesn't make a difference.
What type of backup do you use with your host? (daily, nightly, incremental, etc)
View 10 Replies View RelatedI want to back-up accounts managed by cPanel/WebHostManager to a remote server. I want to be able to restore to any of the last 7 days. I believe doing an incremental back-up each night can accomplish this best, saving both bandwidth and disk space on the remote server.
Using the back-up functionality built into WHM is appealing because WHM knows what files need to be backed up to do a full restore. However, WHM can't do exactly what I'm looking for either. I've been looking into using rsync as described in this document:
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It looks becaue of the "hard link" capabilities of linux, rsync can be used to create what functions like a full back-up every night but requires a full backup the first day and then each day after that only the incremental changes have to be transfered. However, because I don't know what directories need to be backed up, I'm not sure how to implement an rsyc solution either. (BTW, I want to back-up everything necessary to be able to restore each account except the log files. So, that means MySQL, mail, config info, and whatever the user has uploaded)
I current do some rsync backups with a command like so every day
rsync -az -e ssh --stats --delete --exclude "stuff" / user@server:/home/user/
What I want to do is have some incremental backups in there in subdirectories. So, for example, something like this on the remote server
/home/user/something.tuesday
/home/user/something.friday
I thought the --backup --backup-dir Switches were used to store just the files that had changed in seperate directories, am I wrong on that?
I've read everything I could find, including the big rsnapshot scripts, but I'm not able to do what I want, it seems so simple but something's not right, am I wrong that subdirs should have just files that are new or have changed. I tried various things like this, but had no luck
rsync -az -e ssh --stats --delete --backup --backup-dir=/home.Thursday --exclude "stuff" / user@server:/home/user/