Complete account backup

[ASTRAPI]

Hello

As a root in a shared server how can i take a complete backup of a account?
(files,databases,mails)

Thanks

[chinmay]

As a root you can create the backup for the account with the command as below.

Login to the server via SSH and execute the command

root@server [~]# /scripts/pkgacct username

Note :: Replace the username with original cPanel user.

[ASTRAPI]

Any easier solution?

With Gui?

Maybe using whm...

Thanks

[cPanelDavidG]

Any easier solution?

With Gui?

Maybe using whm...

Thanks

You could use WHM to login to the cPanel interface for the user and from there go to the Backups section and Generate a Full Site Backup. Generate a Full Site Backup is a frontend for the script mentioned above.

During this process, you can choose to have this backup sent somewhere via FTP or just placed in the user's home directory.

[ASTRAPI]

Great that was i am looking for

Is it possible to get the backup straight to my pc?

Thanks

[Kailash1]

I don't think it is possible. You can either take backup in your home directory or you can directly copy to another FTP location.

But once the backup is completed, you can download the full backup.

Kailash

[ASTRAPI]

But i think i must create a ftp server in my pc to get the full backup....

[Kailash1]

But i think i must create a ftp server in my pc to get the full backup....

If you can setup FTP server in your system then you can directly transfer backup by selecting "FTP" option.

Kailash

[mohit]

root@server [~]# /scripts/pkgacct username

my /home is quite full, i need the pkgacct to create my backup file (thecpmove-user.tar.gz) directly to /home2/ or /backup/
how do i specifically tell backup script to use this location ?

[cPanelDavidG]

my /home is quite full, i need the pkgacct to create my backup file (thecpmove-user.tar.gz) directly to /home2/ or /backup/
how do i specifically tell backup script to use this location ?

The pkgacct script will create the backup file into whatever mountpoint is set in WHM as the Default Home Directory. Changing this setting will change where pkgacct will create the backup file, but it will also change the default home directory as the setting's name suggests.

[franklinbeech40]

exactly what I was looking for. thanks!

You could use WHM to login to the cPanel interface for the user and from there go to the Backups section and Generate a Full Site Backup. Generate a Full Site Backup is a frontend for the script mentioned above.

During this process, you can choose to have this backup sent somewhere via FTP or just placed in the user's home directory.

[thewebhosting]

my /home is quite full, i need the pkgacct to create my backup file (thecpmove-user.tar.gz) directly to /home2/ or /backup/
how do i specifically tell backup script to use this location ?

I think you can specify different location of taking backups by specifying Backup Destination in WHM -> configure backup Backup Destination. This should be a directory/NFS/Coda mount with at least twice the space of all your /home* partitions

[cPanelDavidG]

I think you can specify different location of taking backups by specifying Backup Destination in WHM -> configure backup Backup Destination. This should be a directory/NFS/Coda mount with at least twice the space of all your /home* partitions

That works for full server backups generated by /scripts/cpbackup but doesn't influence the location of full site backups created by /scripts/pkgacct.