Full Server Backups

[atlantishd]

Hi,

After several serious hard drive failures on my server over the course of a few years, I decided to invest in some good server backups. The default cPanel backups take care of the home directory accounts which is fine, but I want to use my backup service (and tell me if this is NOT possible) to backup the whole server (well anything that holds a configuration setting, and is not standard in cPanel). So that in the event of a major crash I can have the O/S and cPanel reloaded by the data centre, onto the same server and same IP’s etc, and simply transfer the backups back over, and save loads of time re-configuring cpanel and installing and configuring CSF etc.

I am running a dedicated server with Centos 5.5, cpanel, Config Server Firewall, mail scanner etc.

The backups I am running are with webby cart, using rsync on a daily cron job.
The cron job is below, and the list of folders backed up are listed as well.
I have blanked out any identifiable hostnames etc with “x’s” for the post

Cron <root@xxxxxxxx> rsync -avz -e ssh /.cpanel /backup /bin /etc /home /lib /media /misc /mnt /net /opt /root /sbin /scripts /selinux /srv /usr /var /.forward /aquota.user /main /main.cache / xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.com /xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.com.cache /quota.user / xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxxxxx.com /xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxxxxx.com.cache xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.webbycart.com:server1_daily

So the directories backed up are: .cpanel /backup /bin /etc /home /lib /media /misc /mnt /net /opt /root /sbin /scripts /selinux /srv /usr /var
.cpanel never backs up due to files being in use, I assume there is nothing in there that is required for a recovery?

So essentially my questions are:

• Is what I am asking possible?
• If so is it as easy to restore as I hope?
• Am I backing up the right directories (not enough/too many)?

I know this could be classed more of a O/S question, but I would like to be sure that cPanel’s config is capable of being restored in this way.

Thanks for reading, and hopefully you’ll know the answer

Tim

[dalem]

R1 soft is your answer

but this thread is quite old but it should show you the directories required
Restoring Cpanel from old drive after crash or hack - The Planet Forums