How Can I Backup CPanel With Cron
I just went through a week of nightmares, because my host lost hard drives and stuff.. lost my data, etc.. what ever..
I want to work out how I can cron cPanel backups. I did a search online for a cPanel backup manager, but I didn't have much luck.
Or, maybe there's some other way to get regular backups?
I don't really need to backup my whole sites. I keep my files locally, but of course I don't have the databases locally -- or the email records.
All I "really" need is the database SQL files, so that I can rebuild my forums if need be, and also the email setup files -- because I have over 50 domains and I have emails set up on all of them.
I want to have them emailed to myself.
There's an option in cPanel too, which allows me to "generate/download a full backup".. well, how do I "restore" the backup? ie: I know how to backup and restore the home directory, databases and email stuff (there's 3 options in cPanel), but there doesn't seem to be anywhere to restore the full backup.
Anyway, can anyone give me advice on how to keep backups of my cPanel accounts? I don't trust hosts anymore. They say they back stuff up, but they never to.
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