How to backup additional system folders

[jceja]

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

/var/cpanel/backups/extras

and just create empty folders of the folders I'd like to backup? IE. create

/var/cpanel/backups/extras/etc/gitlab

Or how's the best way I could backup those files, thanks!

 

[cPanelMichael]

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:

# 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:

# 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.

 

[jceja]

Thank you very much, just to be sure, this is what I did:

[/var/cpanel/backups/extras]# cat gitlab
/var/opt/gitlab/
/etc/gitlab/

I'll check it out when the backup job does it's thing