Do backups contain apache userdata?

[gramzon]

Does a full WHM backup include the files in the /etc/apache2/conf.d/userdata/ directory?
I am looking inside system_files.tar but can't find these files anywhere.

 

[cPanelLauren]

The following is a list of contents of the backups:

Backup Tarball Contents - Version 82 Documentation - cPanel Documentation

documentation.cpanel.net

The contents of the system backups can be found here:

System Backups - Version 82 Documentation - cPanel Documentation

documentation.cpanel.net

 

[gramzon]

So the answer is no. Which is kind of disappointing considering that location can contain a lot of important configuration like security headers, access control, modsec exclusions, ssl redirects, proxypasses etc.

 

[cPanelLauren]

Hi @gramzon

I've been looking for a solution for you and I just realized that the cpconftool will backup what you're looking for, I believe. When you use the cpconf tool to backup configurations it backups up the following files for Apache configuration:

/etc/cpanel/ea4
/var/cpanel/easy
/etc/apache2/conf.d
/etc/apache2/conf
/usr/local/apache/conf
/var/cpanel/secdatadir
/var/cpanel/modsec_cpanel_conf_datastore
/var/cpanel/conf/apache/main
/var/cpanel/conf/apache/local
/usr/local/apache/conf/includes
/var/cpanel/templates/apache*/*local

The documentation on the cpconftool can be found here: The cpconftool Script - Version 82 Documentation - cPanel Documentation

 

[gramzon]

Thank you for that.
It would be nice if an option was added to automatic backups to include cpconf as well.

 

[gramzon]

I made a script to automate this process:

/usr/sbin/backupcpconf

#!/bin/bash
NAME="cpconf-"$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')".tar.gz"
ID="[private key location]"
RUSER="[backup server user]"
RHOST="[your backup server]"
RPORT="[backup server port]"
RDIR="~/cpconf/"
LDIR="/cpconf/"

CONFS=$(/usr/local/cpanel/bin/cpconftool --list-modules)
for CONF in $CONFS; do
  /usr/local/cpanel/bin/cpconftool --backup --modules=$CONF
done;
mkdir -p $LDIR
chmod 700 $LDIR
tar cfz $LDIR$NAME /home/whm-config-backup*
rm -rf /home/whm-config-backup*
rsync -rvz -e 'ssh -p '${RPORT}' -i '${ID} $LDIR $RUSER@$RHOST:$RDIR

To run manually:

sudo backupcpconf

To automate using crontab (every day at 03:00):

sudo sh -c 'echo "0 3 * * * root backupcpconf" >> /etc/crontab'