I've got a VPS with SLHost and have setup a remote backup account with RVPalace
The VPS is running WHM/Cpanel
I'm running a fairly busy forum and host a few friends sites on the server to. (CMS systems etc)
What's the best way to go about backing up the data to this remote host?
Would you say WHM's backup system is sufficient?
I don't feel comfortable with one backup every 24 hours, so i'm wondering if there's anyway to reduce that to every 6 hours?
Or would you guys recommend RSync instead?
I do have a question regarding RSync...something that worries me
If it's set to backup the sites every 6 hours and only backs up when something changes (Files/databases)
If, god forbid, a site gets hacked, but isn't noticed and Rsync kicks in and backs up the hacked site, there'd be no way to go back to a previous backup, would there?
How many would you guys recommend me? Currently I make backups on my own server and one at offsite. And what's the diffrence making backups trough ssh ot ftp? Because right now I work with ftp because I don't understand ssh.
I have a VPS and an NAS in same data center that are connected via a private network within the datacenter. I can access the datacenter's private network and both servers via VPN.
I can access VPS via SSH. How do I FTP the data on the VPS to the NAS without downloading to my desktop and re-uploading?
what I want to do is a backup every night of the files on my servers from the Data Centre to a server in our local office. What would be the best program to do this? The OS would be Windows Server 2003.
I have a dedicated server that only has around 3-4gb of data on it. I would like to do automated nightly backups for as cheap as possible. I don't want to pay to have my server managed just to be able to have automated backups, so what other solutions do I have? I know I can get really cheap storage from Amazon or Mosso, but is there a way to automate this?
I would like to know what is the difference in cpanel between a full backup and a daily or weekly backup, and how they work together. I was under the impression that a daily backup was a backup of all the files at the end of the day but apparently according to my host this is not so, and Im a bit confused as to what is the purpose of the daily and weekly backup.
I have dedicated server and I have daily,weekly and monthly backups located in:
root: /backup/cpbackup (my secondary drive) each account's backup locate in specific directory like: the backup of account website1.com will be located in: root: /backup/cpbackup/website1 all backups are not compressed file
if anyone knows about cheaper and reliable colocation services in East/ Central. I don’t need premium bandwidth (Internap, Level 3, etc). I need to colocate ½ rack to host my Backups, Bandwidth needed is 5 MB since I use Rsync at different hours, so I don’t need to push more than that.
I try to look for colocation services here in Colorado, but all companies quote me $50 to $70 for each server and $130 per MB.
Check this out... I was just diggin around in my Dreamhost panel and discovered something new that I've not even seen announced anywhere... Dreamhost is giving a BACKUPS user on each account, totally separately from the web user. You are allowed... well, I'll just copy / paste straight from the panel:
At DreamHost, you may only keep website-related content on your regular users. You do, however, get one user per account where anything legal may be stored; your Backups User.
This user cannot have any websites pointed to it, nor may you share files via it... it is only to be used as an off-site backup for your personal files. As such, we keep no backups of files on this account. These are already supposed to be your backups... not your only copy! (Of course, you should always keep your own copies of all data stored with us.. we make no guarantees!)
Every full DreamHost Hosting plan includes 50GB of backups space! (Additional usage will be charged at the rate of 10 cents / GB a month: the best backup deal on the net!)
Pretty interesting... they didn't HAVE to do that, it's just another one of those things that they give in order to be even MORE awesome, evidently.
Rsync seems to be popular as a backup solution, so I thought I give it a look myself. However, after looking for a while I think it is lacking in either (1) usability or (2) security for backups.
Lets use a backup of /home for example:
(1) To make the transfer secure I'd use rsync over ssh. Backup works great - untill you have to restore. Restore works only partially, because all the files now have the user/group id of the user on the backup server (even if the restore is run as root). You'd have to chown all the individual users dirs, permission files....error prone and a lot of manual work --> not good.
(2) Running rsync in daemon mode on the remote server preserves uid/gid and permissions. Restoring works like a charm when run as root. But, hey, now every 13 year old with some knowledge and a packet sniffer can write down your data unencrypted. They just need to look for -lets say- db-info in php files etc and suddenly have access to your customer base or whatever you store.... Even worse if you transfer db dumps or other sensitive data. So it is not safe to use --> not good.
Is there a way to secure the transfer or keep uid/gid info intact? And how do all the backup providers handle the issue? (This one here claims rsync is secure.) Or is there another way to fix the problem - restoring uid/gid and secure transfer for backups.
I have recently wen't with a Windows VPS and am wondering the best way to do backups to a remote computer (hopefully without buying software). Any suggestions?
I want to set up my server (a linux dedicated server) to automatically create daily backups of the pop3, mysql, & webfiles. I want it to go to a server which i have purchased with the exact same specifications.
I am not very good at unix command line/scripting. So what I need is for someone to help me define the backup strategy, select the scripts, and tell me of how to make sure backup server is secure.
We all know about backups, and compressing files, etc etc... so, what do you guys do in this situation?
I have a quad core, 4gb ram, 250gb disk, when I run cpanel backups to my remote server, the server loads go up to 3.
Is there any way I can control this and lets say... dont let it go bellow 2?
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some software that can be ran on a desktop that will allow me to download and backup my databases from my Cpanel server.
I have a remote backup server that once the databases are backed up can be uploaded to this location. Im not too sure if im going around things in a long winded fashion, but ideally i need a solution that can take management of my database backups.
The cpanel dedi im using at the moment is currently utilising the Backup feature, so this is a secondary backup. At the same time i would like to select which databases are backed up too.
Realistically im looking for your expert advice here, im a novice when it comes to server admin etc so your expert help to guide me would be fantastic. Im not to sure whether i would need a desktop tool to back these databases up, or whether it can be done at a server level? Dare i say it im just used to using GUI's and not so familiar with command lines etc.
I've been searching for a tool to automate website backups for me, that is to keep regular copies of files and databases in case of unexpected data loss. So far I found Site Vault that handles both FTP and MySQL backups at the same time. Does anyone know good alternatives to consider?
Is there a way to keep an account suspended in WHM and ensure that they don't get processed in my daily/weekly/monthly backups without manually selecting the account in WHM?
I decided to use cPanels backup in a remote FTP server. But before that I want to password protect all the backups so that none unless me can open /restore the backups.
I am starting a software as a service company and have a dedicated MySQL server running on Linux. It has RAID mirroring but I need to take nightly backups as well and store them either remotely or on a locally connected drive.
There will be 100, and hopefully eventually 1000’s of databases.
I am thinking of using the built in MySQL tools backup script in the GUI tools, which seems to work well. But I have also read about rsync and other disk mirroring backups. What do you guys recommend?
Also, do you guys think a simple external USB connected drive 500GB to the MySQl server is good idea, or is it worth the money to look at TAPE or remote backup on a geographically different location? What exactly is the benefit of TAPE anyway? Seems to me like TAPE is so freaking old, and expensive, I don’t understand why anybody would use it over a simple USB external drive.
free system or script for automatically generating file and database backups on my server and emailing me a notification when the yare ready. I want it to be able to schedule itself so that it can take care of all my backups.
My server runs great 95% of the time. Loads average under 1. However backups have become a server killer. I use cpanel scheduled backup at early morning hours. The reason backups kill my server is that I have 300,000+ (and counting) images in a directory. They are all small pngs generated by LaTeX. It takes my server several hours to backup the images. I usually even have to stop apache to free up some power. This problem is only going to get worse as I get more images. Maybe I could upgrade proc or upgrade to faster HD? That would be costly, hopefully not.
Should I hire a professional backup service? Costly, and would that help? Or is there a way of storing the images or doing the cpbackup I am doing wrong?
I have completed a complex set of scripts which backup your entire system with small managable backups. One script is for the homedir of the accounts that you choose to backup and another is for backuping up every single mysql database (mysqlhotcopy) on your server.
The best thing is that hosting the backups is free because i have managed to have all the encrypted+compressed backup files uploaded on a free rapidshare collectors account.
If for some reason something does go wrong, you can buy a temporary premium account.
Backups stay on the rapidshare server for 90 days.
On my machine, I have set the cron to daily.
Now I have made many scripts before but this is the first one I want to commercialize.
Does anyone want to buy a licence to use it?
I'm now in the process of building a web UI and a solution to rapid restore of an account through it.
On a Cpanel server, lightly loaded, but some fairly large sites (~3GB stored) loads get pretty high during CP backups (D/W/M to secondary drive, compression on). It looks like RAM is showing mostly used during this time (977,555 out of 1,026,348), and iowait is ~50, sometimes quite a bit higher at ~80 on the larger accounts. Not pegged at that amount, but fairly steady. This box only has 1GB RAM, so I'm thinking adding another Gig would alleviate this issue.
This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately, and I'd like to hear what others have to say.
I'd like to keep one copy of each website on a different server - far away from each other, maybe different hosting providers, and be able to use managed DNS to switch between the two in case of an outage.
The sites could easily be backed up daily to the other host, but for databases that get updated frequently (like forums), what is the solution to this?
I have a fairly unique problem. My server runs great 95% of the time. Loads average under 1. However backups have become a server killer. I use cpanel scheduled backup at early morning hours. The reason backups kill my server is that I have 300,000+ (and counting) images in a directory. They are all small pngs generated by LaTeX. It takes my server several hours to backup the images. I usually even have to stop apache to free up some power. This problem is only going to get worse as I get more images. Maybe I could upgrade proc or upgrade to faster HD? That would be costly, hopefully not.
Should I hire a professional backup service? Costly, and would that help? Or is there a way of storing the images or doing the cpbackup I am doing wrong?
