Enable both remote and local backups?

[jhyland87]

Hey, I have 2 questions about the backups..

1) Is it possible to enable both remote and local backups?

2) Is it possible to change the remote backup from FTP to SCP?

If no for both, does anyone know of any good backup scripts?

Thanks

[cPanelEricE]

I love backups, alot. I backup locally on my personal machine and sync those back files to another machine using a custom script I wrote.

The hook for postbackup found here: ScriptHooks < AllDocumentation < TWiki will execute after your backup is done. You can use those to sync via what ever means you'd like. I recommend rsync over ssh using publickeys.

[jhyland87]

Originally Posted by cpanelerice

I love backups, alot. I backup locally on my personal machine and sync those back files to another machine using a custom script I wrote.

The hook for postbackup found here: ScriptHooks < AllDocumentation < TWiki will execute after your backup is done. You can use those to sync via what ever means you'd like. I recommend rsync over ssh using publickeys.

I have never used rsync, do you have any good tutorials? I would love to try it.

[chirpy]

That's exactly the method I use for all of our servers. Many moons ago I posted the following:
http://forums.cpanel.net/f7/rsync-ta...tml#post279060

[jhyland87]

Originally Posted by chirpy

That's exactly the method I use for all of our servers. Many moons ago I posted the following:
http://forums.cpanel.net/f7/rsync-ta...tml#post279060

That looks pretty good, I think I might try it.

Can you explain what the parts in bold do?

rsync --delete --stats -vae ssh /backup/cpbackup/daily remote@remote.server.com/backup/server

[chirpy]

--delete removes files from the destination that no longer exist at the source
--stats provides statistics at the end of the rsync
-v verbose
-a archive mode
-e specifies the remote shell to use (ssh in this case)

[jhyland87]

So is it possible to make the backup run in SCP and not FTP? Ftp is so slow

[cPanelDavidG]

Originally Posted by jhyland87

So is it possible to make the backup run in SCP and not FTP? Ftp is so slow

SCP is not natively supported for full server backups at this time.

[chirpy]

I also very much doubt SCP will be faster that FTP since the data has to be encrypted and then decrypted as it is transferred.

[mediakreativ]

Hello there,

that seems to be a good solution for me - i have a rootserver with an FTP backupspace (not possible for rsync).

In WHM configuration it says "Remote FTP - Accounts only" - does that mean that databases are not included? Or is there a possibility to backup the complete WHM settings?

But even if thats not possible the double backup (one local, afterwards transfered via FTP) would be fine, because then its possible to choose an incremental backup, right?

Which method would you recommend for doing the FTP backup then? As i understand the second backup could be started with postcpbackup - so postcpbackup would start a backupscript, right? Any recommendations for a good working script?

Would be great if somebody could give me advice - maybe somebody has used the WHM backup/FTP backup combination too?

Kind regards,

Christian