cpbackup to two servers

[Ben Harris]

Hi There,

We are looking to increase the redundancy of our backups and were wondering it is possible to make the cpbackup send the backups off to two remote ftp locations instead of just one?

Cheers,

Ben

[cPanelDavidG]

Hi There,

We are looking to increase the redundancy of our backups and were wondering it is possible to make the cpbackup send the backups off to two remote ftp locations instead of just one?

Cheers,

Ben

That functionality is not natively supported at this time.

[PlatinumServerM]

You will need a standalone script to do this. There are some ftp scripts that do this, it grabs the existing backup files and sends them to a remote location.

[Ben Harris]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the replies, I just took a look at the /scripts/cpbackup script, I see that basically after the backup is created it calls the ftpsend() sub (line 727) which basically puts the backup on the remote server via FTP.

Now I have never used perl before, so this is pretty alien to me, but if we were to just duplicate the ftpsend sub and name it say ftpsend1 then just replace the local variables with the variables for the second server (so basically just change $ftpuser,$ftppass and $ftphost). Then add ftpsend1() just before

unlink("${target}/${user}.tar.gz");

So it would read

ftpsend( "$target", "${target}/${user}.tar.gz", "${user}.tar.gz" );
ftpsend1( "$target", "${target}/${user}.tar.gz", "${user}.tar.gz" );
unlink("${target}/${user}.tar.gz");

Do you think this would work. Obviously it would be more efficient to add a for loop and take the data entry as an array from the cpanel entry, but I think this method would be easier if cpanel update the script.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

Ben

[jhyland87]

You could copy the cpbackup into postcpbackup, and change the values... if you wish.

[Ben Harris]

You could copy the cpbackup into postcpbackup, and change the values... if you wish.

@jhyland87 - Cheers for that, I didnt know about postcpbackup. I googled it and found this article which is perfect for my situation.

Richy’s Random Ramblings » cPanel: Simple Script To Backup Over rSync

Cheers,

Ben

[SoftDux]

Isn't it better to rsync the backups from the backup server to the stanby-by backup server? This will cause less load on your cPanel server as well