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How to backup additional system folders

Discussion in 'Workarounds and Optimization' started by jceja, Dec 11, 2017.

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    I would like to make cpanel backup additional files, in specific, gitlab's config and repo files.

    I found this

    System Backups - Documentation - cPanel Documentation

    But I don't understand, I should go to
    Code:
    /var/cpanel/backups/extras
    and just create empty folders of the folders I'd like to backup? IE. create
    Code:
    /var/cpanel/backups/extras/etc/gitlab
    Or how's the best way I could backup those files, thanks!
     
    #1 jceja, Dec 11, 2017
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    Hello,

    The name of the configuration file within the /var/cpanel/backups/extras/ directory is irrelevant. For example, I created the following file:

    /var/cpanel/backups/extras/123

    Here's the contents of this file:

    Code:
    # cat /var/cpanel/backups/extras/123
/etc/gitlab/
    Upon the next backup generation, this lead to the successful inclusion of the entire /etc/gitlab/ directory as a compressed file within the /backup/$date/system/dir/ directory. If you want to define specific files instead of the entire directory, the /var/cpanel/backups/extras/123 file would look like this:

    Code:
    # cat /var/cpanel/backups/extras/123
/etc/gitlab/path/to/file.name
/etc/gitlab/path/to/file2.name
/etc/gitlab/path/to/file3.name
    Thank you.
     
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    Thank you very much, just to be sure, this is what I did:


    Code:
    [/var/cpanel/backups/extras]# cat gitlab
/var/opt/gitlab/
/etc/gitlab/
    I'll check it out when the backup job does it's thing
     
    #3 jceja, Dec 11, 2017
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