I have /home and /home2.. can I backup both to /home2?

[fog]

I need a backup solution. I have /home and /home2. Both have accounts on them, but each is less than half full. If I use the cpanel backup feature can I enter /home2 as the backup location even though/home2 has site content and such on it?

[avara]

How about using the rearrange accounts feature to move all your accounts to /home, before setting up /home2 as your backup partition?

[fog]

That is not an option because I need more than 1 drive for content.

[fog]

Are the cpanel backups compressed?

[JustinK]

I think Nick put up a warning about having backups and content on the same drive as the backups will start replacing the sites.

[fog]

Whew.. glad I didn't try that then.. thanks for the info... know of any 'backup services' out there?

[PWSowner]

Backups are zipped. Each user directory is saved as username.tar.gz, but for sites that have images or videos, the backup is pretty well the same size as the original site.

It is better to have a seperate hard drive, or at least a seperate directory for the backups.

This will be fine as long as you create


/home2/backup

Just don't set it to just /home2

[PWSowner]

I was going to ask this in a new thread but it fits here too.

In the &Configure Backup& settings there is:
Remount/Unmount backup drive (requires a seperate drive/coda/nfs mount)
with the enabled/disabled option.

I just had a second hard drive added and partitioned it with /home2 and a seperate /backup directory.
What is this option and which should I select?

[PWSowner]

I'll answer my question in case anyone else is ever wondering.

If your backup directory is on a partition of it's own, enabling that function makes the backup partition hidden for safety.
If the partition the backup directory is on is used for anything else, the unmount/remount function can not be used.

[fog]

Thanks for the info... good to know