script that will backup full cpanel backups remotely. Can anyone recommend a decent script that will make daily/weekly backups using rsync to do remote full cpanel backups?
The script should set up rsync so that doing a restore is very simple with WHM restore backup option.
I’ve just switched to a deticated server. I have backups of sites I need to move over and restore. cPanel has a “Restore a Full Backup/cpmove” option. Two questions…
1) How do I upload the back up file to the /home directory of my deticated server?
2) If the backup file is under a current client “/home/clienta” how do I restore it?
I’ve also tried using puTTy to restore the file.
- logged into as “root”
- typed “cd /home”
- typed “/scripts/restorepkg domainname”
FTP backups, doing RSYNC what is needed?
I have a linux box with pure-ftpd as FTP backup server. However, we want to explore/expand to RSYNC now.
Is there a package that allows RSYNC to be used for FTP users?
This is basically like what do FTP services like BQbackup use to allow RSYNC, etc.
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.
Keeping mirrored backups...anything better than rsync?
I'm keeping mirrored backups of my servers. Does anyone know of any solution better than rsync to update the files on the backup server?
I've noticed that when running rsync it can cause a lot of disk i/o, which can slow down a running server.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to decrease disk i/o or another solution to keeping mirrored backups on a secondary server?
I'm currently using (amongst other backup systems) rsync to an offsite space (am using BQBackup at the moment)
I'm just wondering - apart from backing up all of /home/, /var/lib/mysql/ and the important config files (httpd.conf, php.conf, etc etc) is there anything else that *needs* to be backed up?
Obviously in a worst case scenario, a new machine would be deployed with a fresh OS install (and a fresh WHM/cPanel install) so I wouldn't worry about backing up OS files or cPanel core files, although I'm wondering if there's anything apart from the /home/ directory and the MySQL databases which would be lost (and so need backing up) in the event of a crash?
I have one server with 500GB disks. The server is running HyperVM. My secundary backup disk is mounted /backup. In the main node I installed ProFTPd and I'm already making backups of cPanel coming trough a VPS hosted on that server. And I would like that all backups made by users or Automated Backups made by HyperVM would go to /backup, so I done this:
1) I would like to make backups of HyperVM databases. I done this:
[url]
Is this correct?
2) I went to Home/Central BackupServers and added:
[url]
Is this correct?
3) Then I went to Servers/localhost/Central Backup Config and selected 127.0.0.1 from the list.
[url]
Is this correct?
Is only this I need to do to make my backups? Is there anything left? If disk one fails will I be able to restore the server after reinstalling HyperVM?
Im looking for a shell script or something to do full backups of a live colo in NY and get everything up and running onto a new colo in Fl before we can kill the NY colo.
what would be the easiest way to go about this?
I have 2 Windows VPS (the provider name does not matter) and as you may know most VPS providers recommed to backup on your side, because they don't take responsabilities on your data and their backup systems.
So my question is what backup software/procedure, would you recommend?
My VPS include IIS files and MySQL/SQL server database software/data, and I am not using any control panel.
how to make backups separately of all domains and clients, without going into their panel and configuring one by one?
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3. With backups, somehow I'd like to schedule backups to possibly make nightly copies to an external hard drive on my computer for a fail safe method just in case the server happens to crash and I'd need to restore to another server/service. How would this be possible?
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I am unable to set cronjob, keep getting message; "Host key verification failed."
If I run command via SSH everything works properly.
I did follow information posted here: http://www.bqbackup.com/setup.html
I think it has to do something with key. In what folder on BQ server should I copy id_rsa.pub key from main server?
This is command I want to run:
rsync -avz -e ssh /home/username/public_html/ username@username.bqbackup.comerver1
Anybody done this like one or two email server running especially Exim and all other cPanel servers are using them as email proxies to send email?
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhenever clients are generating full back up of their sites all at once and like 10x in one hour, its causing a severe spike in load in the servers
is there a way to disable the full backup in cPanel?
I know mellowhost is able to do this
I also saw this when i was searching google --
Quote:
Additionally, you could just give server administrators the option of disabling
the gzipping of these user generated backups
I believe the gzip process is what usually kills the server when dealing with a
large site. Just tarring up the account would use more disk space, but would
keep processing and load usage down
I don't know how to do that though.
Also I use the Backup function in WHM to generate weekly backups of all my customers sites and FTPing to a remote server. I still want that function. I only want the generation of full backup in control panel be disabled.
I 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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