cPanel creating local backup first?

[Domenico]

Hi,

We have one cPanel server with just one account on a 50G SSD.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1 50G 40G 11G 80% /

No problems here but the cPanel backup is not an option because it first needs to create a local backup before it is being transported to an external destination. Silly.

Anyways, what are good backup options that eliminate the option to create a local backup first so we can backup this account safely? Does Jetbackup do this? Other options?

Thank you!

 

[Domenico]

At the moment we are trying Jetbackup for this server and it seems to do ok with on-the-fly backup to all destinations without creating a local backup first.

Why isn't this possible with the standard cPanel backup? Is this by design?

 

[cPanelLauren]

This is done by design by cPanel, we first create the backup and transport it to a remote destination if called for and/or keep a copy locally if the configuration calls for it. There were a few feature requests like this but none of them look planned at this time:
To avoid the load on the server, there is a make offer to find a way generate the backup on the remote server.