Issue with OVH hosting and qemu agent

[360webfirm]

Oh I wanted to ask you what backup service you use for your servers as if I canceled the auto backup from OVH and used another method, that would stop all these issues I am having. I pay $10 per month with them and this includes daily backups for 7 days.

 

[cPRex]

The backups included with cPanel are often enough for most users. You can find more details on those here:

Backup Configuration | cPanel & WHM Documentation

The Backup Configuration interface allows system administrators to customize their scheduled backups.

docs.cpanel.net

If you need more than that, we recommend JetBackup, as you can purchase that license through the cPanel store directly. More details on that tool can be found here: JetBackup 5

 

[360webfirm]

Is this a stupid question, is there a way to actually backup the complete C panel server part, ( not the kernel like Cent OS 7 ) I mean the dns settings, whm nameservers, security advisor and all c panel accounts. I know I can backup individual c panel accounts, I mean the actual server itself.

The reason I ask is if the server crashes and I need to restore the complete server, I can then re install c panel and all info that was backed up. I am diabaling the auto backups from OVH as its still causing issues and they sugegsting to disable that service. I just want to find a way to backup the server. If the server crashes, I might loose all backups also, that is my worry.

 

[cPRex]

If you use the WHM >> Backup Configuration and include the "Backup System Files" option, that will get many of the common configurations on the machine. Here's what I see on my personal server with those enabled:

Directories:

[email protected] [/backup/2021-02-05/system/dirs]# ll
total 109096
drwx------ 2 root root     4096 Feb  5 02:00 ./
drwx--x--x 4 root root     4096 Feb  5 02:00 ../
-rw------- 1 root root    10984 Feb  5 02:00 _etc_cpanel.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root    11894 Feb  5 02:00 _etc_mail.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root   493046 Feb  5 02:00 _etc_pki_tls_certs.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root     3877 Feb  5 02:00 _etc_proftpd.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root     3013 Feb  5 02:00 _etc_ssl.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root     1288 Feb  5 02:00 _etc_valiases.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root      766 Feb  5 02:00 _etc_vdomainaliases.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root      936 Feb  5 02:00 _etc_vfilters.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root  9855643 Feb  5 02:00 _usr_local_cpanel_3rdparty_mailman.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 25160076 Feb  5 02:00 _var_cpanel.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 19428648 Feb  5 02:00 _var_lib_mysql_.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 46942643 Feb  5 02:00 _var_lib_rpm.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root   106915 Feb  5 02:00 _var_log_bandwidth.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root  9503755 Feb  5 02:00 _var_named.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root      866 Feb  5 02:00 _var_spool_cron.tar.gz

Files:

[email protected] [/backup/2021-02-05/system/files]# ll
total 204
drwx------ 2 root root  4096 Feb  5 02:00 ./
drwx--x--x 4 root root  4096 Feb  5 02:00 ../
-rw------- 1 root root 10954 Feb  4 15:19 _etc_apache2_conf_httpd.conf.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3506 Feb  4 14:03 _etc_cpanel_exim_system_filter.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root   550 Feb  4 00:49 _etc_dovecot_sni.conf.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17047 Jan 29 09:26 _etc_exim.conf.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   429 Nov 28  2017 _etc_exim.conf.local.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1292 Jan 29 09:26 _etc_exim.conf.localopts.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   380 Aug 20  2020 _etc_fstab.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    52 Jan 29 09:26 _etc_global_spamassassin_enable.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   794 Feb  4 05:35 _etc_group.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    30 Aug 20  2020 _etc_ips.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root   189 Feb  4 15:19 _etc_localdomains.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root    33 Feb  5 01:10 _etc_mailips.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root    35 Jan 20 09:07 _etc_manualmx.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   172 Jan 18 01:03 _etc_my.cnf.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1712 Feb  4 15:19 _etc_named.conf.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1268 Feb  4 05:35 _etc_passwd.gz
-rw------- 1 root root  4221 Jan 19 16:07 _etc_pure-ftpd.conf.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    79 Jan  4 09:58 _etc_remotedomains.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root    68 Jan  4 09:58 _etc_secondarymx.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root    49 Sep  6  2013 _etc_senderverifybypasshosts.gz
-rw------- 1 root root  1406 Feb  4 05:35 _etc_shadow.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root    41 Sep  6  2013 _etc_spammeripblocks.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    34 Oct 28 19:10 _etc_spammers.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   247 Mar  5  2020 _etc_wwwacct.conf.gz
-rw------- 1 root root    73 Dec 18  2013 _root_.my.cnf.gz
-rw------- 1 root root   152 Aug  7  2020 _var_cpanel_greylist_conf.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 53480 Oct  7 01:01 _var_cpanel_greylist_greylist.sqlite.gz
-rw------- 1 root root   185 Oct 14  2015 _var_cpanel_mysql_remote_profiles_profiles.json.gz

Anything not included in those lists isn't something that is managed by cPanel, so you'd need to back that up through a different method, such as a manual script.