I posted a feature request some time ago:
Keep archive of terminated backups | cPanel Feature Requests
about keeping a copy of terminated accounts.
Because it is impossible to keep backups of terminated accounts with the new backup system, i was forced to run both backups:
1) run the old backup each sunday and create zipped archives to /cpbackup/daily which would keep me a copy of all accounts
2) run incremental daily and monthly with the new backup system (which was a total fail because i found out the hard way that it does not actually keep 2 incremental backups and you really only have 1 backup even if you have monthly checked)
Recently i decided to go the right way and create off-site backups as well (as everyone should) and for now 1-2TiB of storage on Amazon S3 is cheaper than running a dedicated backup server.
So I configured Amazon S3 backup successfully however I had to see with great sorrow that it created date-based folders in the amazon bucket account as well (like 2014-08-23)
so there is really no way of keeping a backup for even 6 months without creating a backup each week or month continuously (= having minimum 6 copies if i want to keep 6 months)
From my point of view
1) separate scheduling for additional destinations is a must, see feature request
2) fixed-named folder names instead of date-named must be an option for those who just want to keep a copy of everyting offsite, see feature request
I am really curious how others handle Cpanel backups with the new backup system and if they find it even usable?
Also, call to arms: there are many useful feature requests but get neglected because noone votes on them. I suggest you browse them through and vote on the vital ones.
Keep archive of terminated backups | cPanel Feature Requests
about keeping a copy of terminated accounts.
Because it is impossible to keep backups of terminated accounts with the new backup system, i was forced to run both backups:
1) run the old backup each sunday and create zipped archives to /cpbackup/daily which would keep me a copy of all accounts
2) run incremental daily and monthly with the new backup system (which was a total fail because i found out the hard way that it does not actually keep 2 incremental backups and you really only have 1 backup even if you have monthly checked)
Recently i decided to go the right way and create off-site backups as well (as everyone should) and for now 1-2TiB of storage on Amazon S3 is cheaper than running a dedicated backup server.
So I configured Amazon S3 backup successfully however I had to see with great sorrow that it created date-based folders in the amazon bucket account as well (like 2014-08-23)
so there is really no way of keeping a backup for even 6 months without creating a backup each week or month continuously (= having minimum 6 copies if i want to keep 6 months)
From my point of view
1) separate scheduling for additional destinations is a must, see feature request
2) fixed-named folder names instead of date-named must be an option for those who just want to keep a copy of everyting offsite, see feature request
I am really curious how others handle Cpanel backups with the new backup system and if they find it even usable?
Also, call to arms: there are many useful feature requests but get neglected because noone votes on them. I suggest you browse them through and vote on the vital ones.
