I realize that this is probably wishful thinking, but if someone could point me to the closest existing technology to do what I need to do I would really appreciate it. I run two forums from an SDX account at JaguarPC. For those of you that don't know, an SDX account is basically a large shared hosting account with more available resources and less accounts perserver. Anyway, they've been great, but I need to set up some sort of backups and I'd like to do them to my home pc. What would be ideal....and I doubt it exists....would be something like robocopy on windows which syncs up changed/added files on a regular basis. The problem is, this is a Linux account and my home pc is an XP machine. Is anything even remotely similar to this possible?
Just as an aside, I'm already creating nightly DB Dump backups but they are stored in the account? This won't help much in the case of a catastrophic failure. The backup, if possible, would backup these DB backups as well since they are in the account.
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.
I have multiple backups stored under server repository (subscriptions --> <domainname> --> website and domains --> backup manager).
The physical files are located at: /var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/904279/domains/<domainname>/
When I click the green arrow to download these files to a local computer (see attached image) I get a new page with title "Download the backup file". On this page I have the option to set a password on the downloaded file, but no matter what I do (password or no password) the file is not downloaded to my local PC. I don't get a pop-up box with the option to save the file. Just nothing happens ...
Firstly I wonder if there is any possibility to limit the number of cores the plesk backup zipping tool uses? This pigz takes up all my CPU. Is there any way I can reduce the amount of cores it uses because all my websites are down every time a backup takes place for around 3 minutes.
Secondly I get the following in my syslog:
1 baby plesk sendmail[20189]: Error during 'check-quota' handler
I don't know what is wrong. I think it's since the upgrade to Plesk 12. I now have 12.0.18 Update #13.
I have a 6GB backup file created with another Plesk Backup Manager, now I trying to upload this backup file to my Plesk Backup Manager but after upload 3% I am getting "413 Request Entity Too Large" error, I tried with disable NGINX but still getting this error.
how can I resolve this error or is their any other way to upload my file on backup manager?
I see that Backup Manager have a file size restriction of 2GB how can I increase this?
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit virtual private server with Plesk 12. The server is hired from a hosting provider. The server is used to run the Odoo ERP application (using postgres database).
The Odoo application is running fine and now I want to create a backup of the application using Plesks Backup manager.
I choose configurations and content option in the backup manager but the created backup is only 200kb.
I think the problem is the location where the Odoo application is installed is not included in the backup. I made a tar backup from the server and extracted it on my pc. It seems that the main parts of the Odoo application are in the var, opt, etc and usr directories (not in a domain but under root).
Installing the application in a domain would solve the Plesk backup issue I think but the installation script of Odoo puts Odoo in var, opt, etc and usr directories even if I put the install script in the directory of a created domain. Since the manual Odoo installation is complicated I am very happy to use the script.
My questions are:
1. Is it possible to include the directories var, opt, etc and usr in the Plesk backup and how and where do I do that?
2. Can I restore such a backup without no problem in Plesk?
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
my cpanel doesn't get backups. When I force it, it gives me this error:
mount: can't find /backup in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab mount: can't find /backup in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab [cpbackup] Backup failed! /bekkaplars is not mounted! at /scripts/cpbackup line 415.
It's a vps. Another interesting thing is, my other 3 vpses run good even /etc/fstab has no line like /backup in there, also.
How To take Backup in a Reseller account..I have over 54 account in an Reseller hosting ..i don't have ssh ..then how can i take full backup of all the account... any idea ..the Server is REDHAT Enterprise 3 With WHM 11.23.0 cPanel 11.23.1...
Is it possible to upload your backups to another server trough ftp? For example I made backups of my sites and they are all in a tar.gz file. I only need to upload them trough ftp? Are the mysql databases etc already included in the files?
In WHM's Backup option, I would like to know the difference in doing a normal backup and an incremental backup. Which one is better (other than the backup space difference)? Which one has more reliability and is more dependable? Which one is easier to restore?
vps with backup service. I just placed an order with cheapvps.co.uk and found out they dont have any backup service(i dont make the payment yet). I see future hosting stated that they have a routine backup for their vps. please confirm that they have a backup service. if don't i'll looking for a new provider.
The second hdd in my server had some problems yesterday and datacenter techs has changed it and formatted today.But i cant see it on WHM.What can i do?
root@ideal1 [~]# sfdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 8924 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 13 266 254 2040255 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 267 8923 8657 69537352+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Disk /dev/sdb: 60801 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 0+ 60800 60801- "488384001" 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sdb3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
