Backup due to HDD Failing

[CoryHawk]

Hello.. Was wondering if anyone had a guide or suggestions on what I needed to do with a HDD failing.

I have a CPANEL/WHM box with RedHat that is the Main HDD is failing. All of the OS and CPanel files are located on this drive. I have a secondary HDD mounted as /backup that I can save configs and user accounts to but I am uncertain as to WHAT to save to have as little downtime as possible.


Is there a cpanel command that will back up the configs (Cpanel/whm/Apache/mysql/firewall/dns/etc.....) that I can move to the /backup drive so I can restore the machine to working order once the OS reload on the new HDD is completed by the datacenter?

Any help would be REALLY appreciated.


Thanks!

[vanessa]

If I were you, I wouldn't wait for the HDD to fail - you need get yourself a new server and migrate your data ASAP. For the backups, this is what you'd usually need to back up:

(make sure to use rsync so that user id's are retained)

/home* (any home folders that store user accounts)
/etc/wwwacct.conf
/etc/userdomains
/etc/trueuserdomains
/etc/trueuserowners
/etc/domainusers
/etc/reservedips
/etc/reservedipreasons
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group
/etc/proftpd
/etc/ips
/etc/valiases
/etc/vdomainaliases
/etc/ssldomains
/etc/ssl
/etc/localdomains
/etc/remotedomains
/etc/named.conf
/etc/exim.conf.local
/etc/exim.conf.localopts
/etc/quota.conf
/etc/sudoers
/etc/cron.d
/var/named
/var/cpanel
/var/lib/mysql
/var/spool/cron
/var/spool/cron.suspended
/root/.my.cnf
/root/.accesshash
/usr/share/ssl
/usr/lib/php.ini
/usr/local/apache/conf