Per-interval account backup exclusions: home dir, disk usage, suspension status

[_El_Chojin_]

I think could be interesting that backup system have different setting for each account, this is that you can select if you want a full backup for an account or a MySQL backup.

In my case i have 2 big sites that has a bg home dir and make backup of home directory every day takes soo much time, so if could be possible to configure every account for dayly, weekly and monthly backup i configure all accounts except this 2 to make full backup every day, week and month, and configure this 2 accounts to make MySQL backup dayly, and weekle and monthly full backup.

I dont know if i have explained correct my feature request and if other users think that could be interesting.

Thanks in advance
I would be very happy if this could be integrated on future cpanel releases.

[Poopool]

I think could be interesting that backup system have different setting for each account, this is that you can select if you want a full backup for an account or a MySQL backup.

In my case i have 2 big sites that has a bg home dir and make backup of home directory every day takes soo much time, so if could be possible to configure every account for dayly, weekly and monthly backup i configure all accounts except this 2 to make full backup every day, week and month, and configure this 2 accounts to make MySQL backup dayly, and weekle and monthly full backup.

I dont know if i have explained correct my feature request and if other users think that could be interesting.

Thanks in advance
I would be very happy if this could be integrated on future cpanel releases.

Hi,
I think you have several options, if you are using /scripts/cpbackup script for generating backup you can use cpbackup-exclude.conf file for excluding big folders of those 2 accounts to prevent overloading.
Let's say the biggest folder is public_html/, you can skip it by adding following line in cpbackup-exclude.conf:
/home/username/public_html

Another option is to use --skiphomedir after pkgacct script like below:
/scripts/pkgacct --skiphomedir username

[_El_Chojin_]

Hi,
I think you have several options, if you are using /scripts/cpbackup script for generating backup you can use cpbackup-exclude.conf file for excluding big folders of those 2 accounts to prevent overloading.
Let's say the biggest folder is public_html/, you can skip it by adding following line in cpbackup-exclude.conf:
/home/username/public_html

Another option is to use --skiphomedir after pkgacct script like below:
/scripts/pkgacct --skiphomedir username

Yes but i want to skip it only on daily backup, on weekly and monthly i want to have all directories of all accounts and if i modify that i will loose it for all (weekly and monthly).

[forlinuxsupport]

I think the cpanel backup should be made more powerful and cater for all these sorts of options.

At the moment its quite basic and just "does the job".

More options and allow us more control !!

[cPanelDon]

I think could be interesting that backup system have different setting for each account, this is that you can select if you want a full backup for an account or a MySQL backup.

In my case i have 2 big sites that has a bg home dir and make backup of home directory every day takes soo much time, so if could be possible to configure every account for dayly, weekly and monthly backup i configure all accounts except this 2 to make full backup every day, week and month, and configure this 2 accounts to make MySQL backup dayly, and weekle and monthly full backup.

I dont know if i have explained correct my feature request and if other users think that could be interesting.

Thanks in advance
I would be very happy if this could be integrated on future cpanel releases.

Yes but i want to skip it only on daily backup, on weekly and monthly i want to have all directories of all accounts and if i modify that i will loose it for all (weekly and monthly).

Is the following an accurate summary of the desired feature?

• Per-user option to skip home directory in daily, weekly, or monthly, account backups
  • Clarification: Per-user option that may apply only to specific backup intervals such as applying only to daily backups while allowing normal full account backups for weekly and monthly.

[PbG]

In addition to this I would like to see the option to select and deselect the entire user list as well as reseller accounts/domains. The per user option should also include ability to skip suspended accounts and backup accounts once.

Is the following an accurate summary of the desired feature?

• Per-user option to skip home directory in daily, weekly, or monthly, account backups
  • Clarification: Per-user option that may apply only to specific backup intervals such as applying only to daily backups while allowing normal full account backups for weekly and monthly.

[cPanelDon]

Preliminary Call for Comments: While trying to consider how the new option(s) may work, I would like to gather everyone's opinion and ask if a reasonable approach that everyone can agree on might be that of including a single, standardized option for each type of criteria to skip or exclude from backups with a check-box selection for each backup interval and an accompanying editable list specific to the type of criteria, such as for selecting users or groups of users, that can be modified via the same interface in WHM (similar to how WHM facilitates editing a whitelist or blacklist in other configuration areas). The exclusion criteria may include at least one or more of the following: e-mail data, cPanel user home directories, cPanel account disk usage, and account suspension status. Each of the associated options, if used, may have a default behavior that applies server-wide, but would allow customization in the way of editable lists to configure more fine-grained precision by selecting only certain users or groups of users, such as resellers and their accounts, on which to apply each exclusion. To the best of my understanding of what is being requested, I believe the preceding detail fully covers both the original feature request description in the original/opening post as well as the additional suggestions that followed.

To anyone that wants to see this implemented please reply to let us know if you are (or are still) interested and if you approve or disapprove of the aforementioned proposal; feel free to share any additional comments that you may have as well. Thank you!

[cPanelDavidG]

I met with one of our Partner NOCs today and they suggested also having the ability to have accounts backed up compressed vs. uncompressed as well, so accounts full of thumbnails aren't unnecessarily compressed for backups.

[YemenHosting]

I have the seem problem, I want to exclude files from daily backup only and Include it on weekly and monthly backup, I came to this page through search engines, I am looking for a solution for this. I going to write a PHP script to rewrite the cpbackup-exclude.conf file , if it is the time of weekly and monthly backup the script should empty the cpbackup-exclude.conf else if it is another day the script will write the path of the unwanted files to the cpbackup-exclude.conf file.

I it a good Idea ?

[cPanelDavidG]

Okay, we have a lot going on in this thread. The simpler we make things, the more likelihood it will be implemented well.

Regarding treating accounts differently with regards to backups because of their suspended status, that is being tackled in a different thread: http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/dont-b...-a-192471.html - comment there instead of here so we can boil this request down to stuff that isn't being addressed in other conversations .

We are already planning to allow for the disabling of backing up of public_html: http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/backup...-a-221402.html

Here's an established discussion on excluding mail data from a backup: http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/option...up-214832.html

Regarding not backing up accounts if they're bigger than a certain size: http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/dont-b...gb-159630.html

As for backing up different accounts on different intervals: http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/per-us...-a-138457.html - building off this to have "Backup Plans" is being discussed at http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/backup-plans-214532.html

This leaves the following items remaining:
- Skipping the entire homedir in a backup (I can start a new thread for this if you desire, just drop me a PM)
- Doing the above in combination, a discussion best suited for the discussion on Backup Plans at http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/backup-plans-214532.html


Related requests:
- Ability to omit space-consuming bandwidth data from backups: http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/exclud...-a-254561.html

Where do we go from here?

Please vocalize your support on the above threads for the specific items you want and we'll implement those specific items. This request is overlaps many other conversations that would benefit from the input of those participating in this thread. Additionally, it is simply too general. So I am closing and archiving this thread in hopes you will continue to pursue the specific items you desire via the threads I mentioned in this post. Thanks!