i have a deicated server with 2 drives the first is 80% i want to generate cpanel backup files but for them to be created to the 2nd drive 10% full so then i can get them off the server and upload to the new, does anyone know how to do this?
View 5 Repliesto copy over 11+Gb of single account to another server and we have got only 7 GB space left on our home directory.
Is there a way by which we can specify a target directory to create the backup archive for the pkgacct script.
1- i did Os Reload with new Hard drive for "home"
2- data "backups" drive lost
3- replaced the old home drive as "/old drive"
4- " /old drive " is now the secondry drive in my server and it has the all sites usres and evry thing
5- what i need , to trasfer, copy this sites from " /old drive " to "home"
but data center said
The /olddrive/home directory contains the contents that were previously in the /home directory. You can copy files from this directory to any other directory on your server.
The command to copy files in the UNIX environment is the "cp" command.
The user directories in /olddrive/home directory contain the web page files for the users. However, simply copying the contents over will not recreate the users or domain entries in DNS/httpd. If you wish these back you will need to recreate them manually or restore them from backups.
Primary drive (centos/cpanel) is corrupt
The server is displaying these errors when I tried to do an FSCK:
Bad inode IO
ext3-fs error (device(8,3)) IO Failure
I am having a new primary installed and old primary set as 2nd drive. I need to recover the cpanel domain accounts from this 2nd drive after I mount it with the method below:
mkdir /backup
mount /dev/sdb1 /backup
However, how do I actually recover these accounts in an automated process via whm? I've done this before with the same matter (corrupt primary drive, mount as 2nd, etc) but cannot exactly remember the proper steps.
I just purchased a brand new 10K 150GB drive. How can I take an exact copy of my current drive and transfer everything over to the new drive? I think I need to create a snapshop, or mirror it somehow.
What software will do this? I was told trueimage, but its very pricy, is there anything else?
How can I disable the daily low space warning emails?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a dedicated box and I started getting Input/output errors today.
I tried:
# fsck
fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/hda2: recovering journal
fsck.ext3: unable to set superblock flags on /dev/hda2
then I tried:
# fsck -a -t ext3 /dev/hda2
fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/hda2: recovering journal
fsck.ext3: unable to set superblock flags on /dev/hda2
My data is backed up, so was going to ask for a reimage, but is this an indication of bad hardware? Should I ask for a replacement drive? Is there anything else I should try on my own before going to the host?
After adding a second drive mounted as /home2 for backups I attempted to use the cPanel "Configure Backup" and I get the following message.
Quotas cannot be built!
Your cpbackup destination is on a filesystem which has quotas enabled.
Please move it to a filesystem which does not have quotas turned on
or a separate partition/disk slice mounted at /backup.Backup has been
disabled to prevent quota problems...
All searches on how to resolve this really reveal no solutions.
I did a google search on "disable filesystem quota" among others and could
find nothing.
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 Relatedi have this error message sent to my email
S.M.A.R.T Errors on /dev/sdb
From Command: /usr/sbin/smartctl -q errorsonly -H -l selftest -l error /dev/sdb
Please note the following marginal Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 054 037 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 46
----END /dev/sdb--
i have done cpanel update in the log i have this error
Running Sanity Checks & Notifications...Using smartcheck config 5.32 for smartctl(5.33)
Checking /dev/sda....Ok
Checking /dev/sdb....
Errors:
Please note the following marginal Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 052 037 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 48
do i have hard drive failure? how can i fix this?
I received this a month ago and now ive just done a cpanel update and in the log i noticed this:
Running Sanity Checks & Notifications...Using smartcheck config 5.32 for smartctl(5.33)
Checking /dev/sda....Ok
Checking /dev/sdb....
Errors:
ATA Error Count: 213 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
Error 213 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 7 hours (0 days + 7 hours)
Error 212 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 7 hours (0 days + 7 hours)
Error 211 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 7 hours (0 days + 7 hours)
Error 210 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 7 hours (0 days + 7 hours)
Error 209 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 7 hours (0 days + 7 hours)
yesterday i took these message
From Command: /usr/sbin/smartctl -q errorsonly -H -l selftest -l error /dev/sda
Please note the following marginal Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 054 044 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 46
----END /dev/sda--
S.M.A.R.T Errors on /dev/sdb
From Command: /usr/sbin/smartctl -q errorsonly -H -l selftest -l error /dev/sdb
Please note the following marginal Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 050 040 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 50
----END /dev/sdb--
ok i know that propably i must change hard discs but these is sure?
I got email from cpanel about 3 times now, here is the copy of that email
--------------------------------------------------------------
S.M.A.R.T Errors on /dev/sda
From Command: /usr/sbin/smartctl -q errorsonly -H -l selftest -l error /dev/sda
Please note the following marginal Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 064 044 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 36
----END /dev/sda--
--------------------------------------------------------------
is it Cpanel bug?
I get the following message in my email:
"S.M.A.R.T Errors on /dev/hda
From Command: /usr/sbin/smartctl -q errorsonly -H -l
selftest -l error /dev/hda
ATA Error Count: 1
Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 7712 hours (321 days + 8
hours)
----END /dev/hda--"
As I have never used cPanel neither have whatsoever experience with control panels, in the process of ordering a couple of new server I am wondering what's the average recovery time after a server failure which involves data (ie. disk failure).
I am interested to understand this, because I need to choose between hardware raid or backup disk.
For example, at LiquidWeb (this is just one of the many managed providers i am evaluating) you can pay the same server 264$ with 2x250 hardware raid 1, and 219$ with 2x250 simple hard drives, where the second one is supposed to be a backup drive.
I am yet to ask, but on this servers most likely (at this prices) they do not have hot swappable disk drives where they can rebuild the array "live", so also if i choose raid hardware, in case of a disk failure, i face a downtime to bring down the server, rebuild the array, bring on the server, which I guess is something not less than 30-60 minutes downtime.
The advantage of this solution is that a disk failure keeps the system running, so you can schedule a maintenance window to replace the disk and rebuild the array, I guess.
On the other side, relying on a backup disk (and of course rsyncing data to an offsite server, i would do this anyway) you save 45$ each month, and disks after all do not fail every month.
If the main disk fails, they need to replace the disk, install again the server with what I suppose being a standard image (so let's figure a couple of hours, as they have a 30min hardware replacement sla), then you need to restore backups (which in my case are something like 20gigs). So I guess, on an average, it would take something like 4 hours downtime.
Am I correct ?
What would you reccomend as a solution with cpanel, taking into account the huge price difference ? Backup drive or Hardware raid ?
This would be for a single big website, not a hosting-company with resellers and customers environment, so I would value more the monthly saving, rather than the high availability, but of course I am interested to know what is the average time to recover a cpanel server after a drive failure.
Besides I have also another question, as I have never had a colocated server with raid hardware, so i do not know anything about this.
When a drive fails in a raid1 hardware environment, how the hosting provider gets notified ? I suppose it's not a led on the server to blink, as no one would see it.
So if you have software raid (like my computer at home) you get an email from mdadm with "warning, array degraded", so you know it quick and you can check it anytime doing a ' cat /proc/mdstat '. What about hardware raid?
My fear is that nobody notices my raid1 drive failure, the server keeps going on just a drive, then maybe the other drive fails, and it would be unpleasant: while a single drive failure would be obviously very easy to spot for me.
I have a Win2K3 server which has 2 hard drives. I was considering backup options and I thought that I might try mirroring Drive A ==> Drive B. I would think that, then, if Drive A has a hardware failure, I could simply switch Drive B into the Primary slot (A) and the server would continue to hum along as nothing has happened. This would reduce the downtime, hopefully.
I have 3 questions.
1. Is this idea practical (will it work)?
2. What is a good software program to use fto handle the mirroring?
3. Any considerations, warnings, technical advice in regard to this method?
how to check using SSH if the HD is SSD drive in a linux box?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've got another server comming online shortly which will be used for shared hosting. A Q9550, 8 GB DDRs, 2 1 TB SATA drives in RAID 1. I know everyone has different opinions and reasons for their partitioning decisions, so I wanted to get a feel on how you would partition the drives durring setup, and why you would do it the way you do.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI need your opinion on the best drive configuration for my Dell poweredge 2850 dual 3.0.
I have 6 x 72gb scsi 10k hds, and perc4 raid in server. My os will be Cent os with 4 gigs of ram installed. I want to try to make this server as redundant as possible.
Offsite backup is also in plans. I’m going to use this server for a few sites (5 - 10) that are db driven, and host small video clips as Dolphin Smart Community. Server will be colocated. Please let me know if missed something .
how they sell those usb hard drives that connect to the computer that can hold like 100 gb's.....
well if i hook up one of those external hard drives to my server can i use it as webspace for users?