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Originally Posted by crazyfish
I've been wondering if I am using my VPS's disk space efficiently. Currently I configured the WHM backup for daily incremental backups of the accounts, account config files and database to a separate backup folder then I use rsync to copy them to an offsite server.
Is this the best way to use my limited disk space? I was thinking that maybe I should just backup the databases to the backup folder and just use rsync to copy the whole /home folder.
Any thoughts or opinions?
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Incremental backups are inefficient on disk space in the sense that when a file is removed from an account, it is never removed from the incremental backup. To avoid this issue, you could use regular backups but that would lead to more disk I/O (as all data would always be backed up, not just what's changed). Of course, I'm limiting my discussion to cPanel/WHM functionality.
I'm sure there are custom setups that others can recommend.