Backup Daily Contrab
Jun 2, 2007i want to run /scripts/cpbackup every day begain with 12:00 AM and i put this line in /tmp/crontab.XXXXwuxGUI File
0 0 * * * /scripts/cpbackup
but the backup didn't work and do the job
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CPanel Daily Backup: Load
May 5, 2008I have my WHM/cPanel installation configured with daily and weekly backups. I checked at what time of the day the server load was at the minimum and configured the cPanel backup cron to run then.
The problem now is: Backing up a few hundred accounts results in a high server load. My server configuration:
Dual Processor Quad Core Xeon 5335 2.0GHz with 4GB RAM and 2 x 250GB SATA HDD hosted at SoftLayer.
The accounts are located on the first HDD and the backup archives are placed on the second HDD.
What can I do about this? I'd like to take daily backups of all accounts but not if my server load increases up to 10... That kind of renders the cPanel backup feature useless if it doesn't even work on a powerful server like this one...
Would it help if I use an application such as Auto Nice Daemon to give the backup process a lower priority? But then again that won't work on the MySQL dumps? And I think it's not a CPU problem but an I/O wait problem? Other processes have to wait for disk access because the disk-intensive backup process is running?
Daily Full Backup On Cpanel
Apr 6, 2007I have seen resellerzoom provides daily full backup to their customer. How should i configure my WHM so that it create daily backup and delete old backup.
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Apr 5, 2007I want to know how can backup my linux server data's to windows server? due high number of files and daily updates i cant use FTP
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Jul 9, 2008to decrease the load in server when daily backup start ,, the load in server before backup start from 0.80 to 1.20 after daily backup started i see very high load from 16.00 to 32 and 40
any solve for decrease load when backup start from 3 to 7 alot
Backup Type :: Daily, Nightly, Incremental?
May 13, 2008What type of backup do you use with your host? (daily, nightly, incremental, etc)
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Oct 29, 2006i just wana know is it safe to do remote daily backup for about 70,000 files?
file sizes is about 200kb and every day i have about 1000 new file, so rsync first should check old files becouse i am deleting about 30-50 of them daily and them backup new 1000 files ,
so how much it will take every time to compare that 70,000 files?
i have 2 option now:
1-using second hdd and raid 1
2-using rsync and backuping to my second server , so i can save about $70 each month.
Is It Possible To Create A Cron To Backup Mysql Data Daily
May 15, 2009Is there any way to create a cron to backup mysql data daily ( or weekly )? I mean an "auto script" to run this command daily
mysqldump -u usernam -p password dataname > file.sql
Plesk 11.x / Linux :: How To Do MySQL Database Daily Backup Via Scheduled Tasks
Feb 12, 2015I'm new to Parallels Panel. I use version 11.0.9. I want to backup mysql database daily. First of all, what is the best way for daily database backup in plesk. I'm trying to do this in Scheduled Tasks and I use mysqldump command although I'm not sure.
I chose the time and day first and then I switched on the task. I typed the following command to Command line.
mysqldump -uusername -ppassword databasename | gzip -9 >/httpdocs/mydatabase.sql.gz
or
mysqldump -uusername -ppassword databasename >/httpdocs/mydatabase.sql.gz
This created only a blank file. When I use this without gzip, nothing changes.
1- Is mysqldump right command for database backup?
2- Should I define full path for mysqldump, gzip and database? If so, how can I find out the full path of mysqldump, gzip and my database? Because I can't see their locations in panel.
3- I can't see any error message. There is not any log file in httpdocs folder. Where does the log file exist?
4- It is weird but should the username be "database user" or should I write "root" ?
Creating Daily Backups
Mar 30, 2009I 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.
Apache Crashes Daily
Apr 21, 2009I am running a dedicated server.
My apache crashes daily and I am investigating the cause of it.
I have found this strange message in my apache error_log....
Daily Attack From The Same Network
Apr 8, 2009Our website is receiving a daily attack from a french network called Neuf Cegetel. The IP is different each day but the network is always the same. The attack is daily and during several hours.
The website does not use ajax (the request is an ajax request) and there is no URL /0_0?_=... But the attacker use a random URL similar to this /0_0?_=1238873869634. Since the URL is always different the page is not cached so it is compressed by mod_deflate and therefore the attack is more harmful. The User-Agent and the cookies changes quite a lot but it is always an ajax request. Taking in account that it is the only ajax request in the server that would be the easily way to stop it. But it seems that when we try to stop the attack, the attacker try another way, what makes me think that the attack is voluntary (not a virus nor something like that).
Since it seems that the attacker can be easily found it (we are a Spanish website and the attacker comes always from the same French network), should we report this? If it were a virus in a remote server, the solution maybe is just to contact the abuse department of the network but if it is voluntary I think that we should discover who is behind the attack since it might be a company that want to bother us, a competitor or something like that. What do you think?
This is a very small copy of the logs containing a few examples:
Code:
4087 ReqStart c XX.XXX.42.189 52592 517548693
4087 RxRequest c GET
4087 RxURL c /0_0?_=1238873869634
4087 RxProtocol c HTTP/1.1
4087 RxHeader c x-requested-with: XMLHttpRequest
4087 RxHeader c Accept-Language: fr
4087 RxHeader c Referer: http://thewebsite.com/
4087 RxHeader c Accept: application/xml, text/xml, */*
4087 RxHeader c x-requested-handler: ajax
4087 RxHeader c UA-CPU: x86
4087 RxHeader c Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
4087 RxHeader c User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0;
Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET
CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; FDM; OfficeLiveConnector.1.3;
OfficeLivePatch.0.0)
4087 RxHeader c Host: thewebsite.com
4087 RxHeader c Connection: Keep-Alive
4087 RxHeader c Cookie:
__utma=9819446.1354119376.1238785835.1238785835.1238865537.2;
__utmz=9819446.1238865537.2.2.utmccn=(organic)|utmcsr=msn|utmctr=thewebsite|utmcmd=organic;
__utmc=9819446; /=
4087 VCL_call c recv lookup
4087 VCL_call c hash hash
4087 VCL_call c miss fetch
4087 Backend c 3052 default default
4087 ObjProtocol c HTTP/1.1
4087 ObjStatus c 404
4087 ObjResponse c Not Found
4087 ObjHeader c Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:37:47 GMT
4087 ObjHeader c Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
4087 ObjHeader c Vary: Accept-Encoding
4087 ObjHeader c Content-Encoding: gzip
4087 ObjHeader c Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
4087 TTL c 517548693 RFC 120 1238873867 0 0 0 0
4087 VCL_call c fetch
4087 TTL c 517548693 VCL 3600 1238873868
4087 VCL_return c deliver
4087 Length c 235
4087 VCL_call c deliver deliver
4087 TxProtocol c HTTP/1.1
4087 TxStatus c 404
4087 TxResponse c Not Found
4087 TxHeader c Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
4087 TxHeader c Vary: Accept-Encoding
4087 TxHeader c Content-Encoding: gzip
4087 TxHeader c Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
4087 TxHeader c Content-Length: 235
4087 TxHeader c cache-control: max-age = 300
4087 TxHeader c Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:37:47 GMT
4087 TxHeader c X-Varnish: 517548693
4087 TxHeader c Via: 1.1 varnish
4087 TxHeader c Connection: keep-alive
4087 TxHeader c age: 0
4087 ReqEnd c 517548693 1238873867.757586718
1238873867.758437872 0.936849117 0.000804424 0.000046730
HostV Daily Load
Aug 27, 2008customer of HostV's VPS hosting, and for the past 3 days, at almost exactly 01:20 GMT, CPU load jumps from an average of about 0.10 to 2.5+, stays there for over an hour, then drops back down.
During this time, there are NO processes on my virtual server using any significant amount of CPU time, memory, or IO. No cron jobs are running on my server, etc.
Note the output from 'uptime' below (I was monitoring it waiting for the problem to occur, which it did at exactly the time I expected):
00:32:05 up 22:01, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.08
00:32:07 up 22:01, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.11, 0.08
01:09:49 up 22:39, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.00
01:10:03 up 22:39, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00
01:19:26 up 22:48, 2 users, load average: 0.46, 0.16, 0.04
01:20:42 up 22:50, 2 users, load average: 1.53, 0.55, 0.18
01:21:39 up 22:51, 2 users, load average: 1.40, 0.67, 0.24
01:46:04 up 23:15, 2 users, load average: 3.06, 2.02, 1.52
Also note output from 'top', taken when load average was at 3.06 shown on the last line above:
Cpu(s): 0.1% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 91.0% id, 9.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
My cpu usage is very low (0.1%) but wait time is at 9.0%, and I've seen this go as high as 70% during these times.
So, basically, there is a problem that exists on the host node somewhere that is causing my site to become effectively unresponsive (page load 20 seconds+ - measured), and it happens every single day at the same time.
So, why am I posting it here instead of logging a trouble ticket? I have logged a trouble ticket, but when I encountered the problem yesterday, despite logging it as "CRITICAL", I had to wait nearly 5 hours for a response, which effectively said not much beyond "we noticed the problem and fixed it and we're monitoring it". So I don't have a lot of faith that today's response will be any better.
I moved to HostV because of similar problems I was encountering with shared hosting, and was assured before signing up that the kind of problem I'm seeing doesn't happen. So now I'm outlaying more than 10 times the cost for almost exactly the same problems and a similarly unhelpful response to it.
By publicly posting the problem, I would hope that someone at HostV will ensure the problem is addressed PROPERLY, rather than bandaided again, and that hopefully we will all be able to see just how good HostV's support CAN be (as evidenced in another similar post).
I await HostV/Cirtex's response.
As shown in the uptime information about, server uptime is 23:15, because I rebooted the virtual server yesterday to see if that helped. It didn't. In fact, it took over 20 minutes for the server to come back up, which is why I'm not going to do it again.
Daily Hacking Attempts
Oct 13, 2007Our VPS is being hit several times a day with hacking attempts. We have been actively monitoring error logs and can see the failed attempts. I was just wondering if there is a better way to track such attempts or another system log that wold provide additional info on these attacks? or maybe some 3rd party logging scripts?
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Mar 7, 2007I just had a quick question about backup solutions. What advantage would I have by setting up 2 HD's in a RAID-1 array as opposed to just doing daily automated backups on one of the drives.
The way I see it, if I have automated backups, HD use for that backup drive is limited to say 20 minutes a day. In a RAID-1 array however, both drives are used at the same rate. Wouldn't this provide better life expectancy for the backup drive, granted it is at the expense of having a guaranteed instant replacement for that original drive?
Reason I'm asking is because I'm setting up a Mac Mini for a friend as a web server and he would like to have data backups. The only way to add space is to intall an external hard drive so my options are a bit limited.
Mirroring Live Drive Daily?
Mar 22, 2008I would like to create an exact copy of my live drive on a daily basis via cron. Is there a good mechanism for doing this *without* taking the main drive offline? It seems like the two common backup solutions: dd and rsync both have issues in this area. I don’t think Rsync can create an exact mirror (including partitions) and dd looks like you need to unmount the drive(s) first.
Both drives are of identical size and installed via the ide controller.
Daily Dozen LFD Blocks Normal
May 5, 2009I recently got a dedi from Hivelocity, and they installed CSF/LFD. On my previous hosts, I didn't have this, just cPHulk. With this dedi, I'm receiving nearly a dozen daily emails from LFD with IPs that have been blocked for multiple failed logins, mostly with username root, but also sales, staff, admin, system, etc., and a few for port scanning.
Is this normal? I've already disabled direct root login via SSH, and I'm not really worried about anyone actually managing to gain access, I'm just curious about the high number of attempts. On previous hosts, where I actually had active sites and forums, with links posted on other forums that are indexed and nicely ranked by Google, I rarely received any emails from cPBrute at all.
Limit User Download Daily
Jun 22, 2008Is there any apache module which can limit user download daily. e.g. userA can download XX GB per day.
I am using mod_cband but it seems it can't do something like that.
How Can I Setup Daily Exim Statistics?
Feb 27, 2008How can I setup daily exim statistics?
From WHM, it shows for about one month exim statistics.
Is there any way to have daily exim statistics?
How Do I Create A Daily Copy Of Just One File
Jul 3, 2008I seem to be having a problem where periodically the data in one file is getting corrupted. I haven't been able to figure out a pattern to it, so I wanted to run command by crontab that would create a copy of the file each day. To avoid overwriting previous backups the filename of each day's copy would have to be unique like...
cp filename filename-2008-07-03
Is there a way to include this year, this month, and this day variables in a linux command?
Doubt About Csf :: Check /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
Nov 1, 2009i need information about this option 'Check /etc/cron.daily/logrotate for /tmp noexec workaround', there are in the server check, of the csf test, someone can explain to me about this function? should do it?
the actually state is 'warning'.
Any Daily Moving Files Soloution (Rsync)
Mar 5, 2008I have move all my vBulletin images to a separate server .. to decrease the load in the main server.. but i am still having a problem .. I have a 3 directors updated daily with new images they are
/home/mark/public_html/vb/customavatars
/home/mark/public_html/vb/customprofilepics
/home/mark/public_html/vb/signaturepics/
I am searching for a way to move only the new files uploaded to this there directory's to the other server in this way
/home/mark/public_html/vb/customavatars (new files) ===> /home/mark/public_html/images/customavatars
/home/mark/public_html/vb/customprofilepics (new files) ===> /home/mark/public_html/images/customprofilepics
/home/mark/public_html/vb/signaturepics/(new files) ===> /home/mark/public_html/images/signaturepics
I have tried to use Rsync in this way as i have a internal connection between my server but it's not work
rsync -a rsync://192.168.0.2/vb/customprofilepics/ /home/mark/public_html/images/customprofilepics
rsync -a rsync://192.168.0.2/vb/customavatars/ /home/mark/public_html/images/customavatars
rsync -a rsync://192.168.0.2/vb/signaturepics/ /home/mark/public_html/images/signaturepics
with daily corn ..
Using CRON To Restore CPanel Backups Daily
Nov 21, 2008A couple weeks ago, I encountered a big server crash on my VPS that caused me a lot of downtime. I'm currently trying to figure out a solution to keep a current "clone" of all of my server accounts on a second server. That way, if I ever encounter another crash, I'll be able to simply change DNS information to have all accounts "live" using the backup server.
I appreciate any input, advice, suggestions, criticism, etc. Here's what I have in mind...
1. I currently have all of my websites hosted on Server #1. (We'll call it that for the sake of avoiding confusion.)
2. I have an automatic nightly backup setup via cPanel / WHM that backs up all accounts from Server #1 to Server #2 via FTP. (Server #2 is in a totally different data center, with a different provider.)
3. The nightly backup packages all of the accounts as "cPanel Full Backups." So, they're compressed, and as such, they don't work as "live, functioning websites" on Server #2.
The only way to make them "live and functional" on Server #2 would be to use cPanel to "restore" the backups.
4. So, what I'd like to do is setup a CRON job that would automatically "Restore" the backups each morning on Server #2. That way, Server #2 would always have a functional version of all my accounts, that is less than a day old. Then, if Server #1 ever crashed, I'd just have to change DNS information to point to Server #2, and all of the websites would be live again, without having to physically restore all of the backups using cPanel.
I don't know a ton about CRON. However, as I understand it, CRON couldn't actually make cPanel restore the backups. However, I'm assuming that when you use cPanel's "Restore" function, it just goes through a series of processes. So, it seems logical to me that, if you knew what those processes were, you could write a CRON job to automate the process every morning.
Did that make sense?
If so, is it possible?
Do you guys have any input, criticism, etc?
If it's doable, can you make any suggestions that would help me make this happen?
Finally, if you think you have the expertise to make this happen, I'd be interested in chatting with you via Private Message. I'd be willing to pay to have this done.(Note to Moderators: I'm not sure if my last comment is allowed or not ... if not, please feel free to remove it. I'm far more interested in the discussion of this process than trying to solicit help in making it happen.)
Using CRON To Restore CPanel Backups Daily
Nov 21, 2008I encountered a big server crash on my VPS that caused me a lot of downtime. I'm currently trying to figure out a solution to keep a current "clone" of all of my server accounts on a second server. That way, if I ever encounter another crash, I'll be able to simply change DNS information to have all accounts "live" using the backup server.
I appreciate any input, advice, suggestions, criticism, etc. Here's what I have in mind...
1. I currently have all of my websites hosted on Server #1. (We'll call it that for the sake of avoiding confusion.)
2. I have an automatic nightly backup setup via cPanel / WHM that backs up all accounts from Server #1 to Server #2 via FTP. (Server #2 is in a totally different data center, with a different provider.)
3. The nightly backup packages all of the accounts as "cPanel Full Backups." So, they're compressed, and as such, they don't work as "live, functioning websites" on Server #2. The only way to make them "live and functional" on Server #2 would be to use cPanel to "restore" the backups.
4. So, what I'd like to do is setup a CRON job that would automatically "Restore" the backups each morning on Server #2. That way, Server #2 would always have a functional version of all my accounts, that is less than a day old. Then, if Server #1 ever crashed, I'd just have to change DNS information to point to Server #2, and all of the websites would be live again, without having to physically restore all of the backups using cPanel.
I don't know a ton about CRON. However, as I understand it, CRON couldn't actually make cPanel restore the backups. However, I'm assuming that when you use cPanel's "Restore" function, it just goes through a series of processes. So, it seems logical to me that, if you knew what those processes were, you could write a CRON job to automate the process every morning.
Did that make sense?
If so, is it possible?
Do you guys have any input, criticism, etc?
If it's doable, can you make any suggestions that would help me make this happen?
Finally, if you think you have the expertise to make this happen, I'd be interested in chatting with you via Private Message. I'd be willing to pay a reasonable sum for some help with this.
Pop Services Fail During Specific Hours Daily
Oct 19, 2007My POP services keep failed daily between 10am-4pm central time. Rather strange.
However, sometimes some people can't access pop services, while others still can.
I thought it was a SpamAssassin issue as it was overloading a little bit due to corrupt files. Fixed that, and problem persists.
CentOS 4.x
cPanel 11.x
SpamAssassin 3.2.x