Manually creating tar.gz files from shell

Your manual backup does not contain the users mysql and other files needed for restoring a full backup.

Is there any reason you are not wanting to run the cpanel backup? Its a difficult task to manually create a script that does what the backup does. If you are just worried about user files then the /home/client method is fine.

 

I see. Then I would recommend setting an ftp server at home and then use the cpanel backup to log into and create the backups to the remote ftp server, which would be your local machine.

No wasted time downloading, going through accounts, etc etc. Nothing is stored on the server side so no excess room taken or integrated into your vz image.

All you need to do is keep your home ftp server online during its backup schedule. If thats not convenient, then simply setup the ftp backup system as mentioned and then run /scripts/cpbackup --force and that should start the backup to the remote ftp on demand.

Good luck..

 

Hi,

You can make a backup from SSH using the following command :

/scripts/pkgacct username

This will create a full cpmove backup of respective user account which will be stored in /home.

You will have copy of backup as
cpmove-username.tar.gz



You can also restore by using following command :

/scripts/restorepkg username

This command will automatically restore your cpmove-username.tar.gz backup.
Prior to restore, make sure you have the copy of backup as cpmove-username.tar.gz in /home.


Hope this helps.

Regards,
Boby

 

Local backup via SFTP or SCP - AUTOMATED

Anyone have a script that does this? I'd like it to run as a crontab, backup all MySQL databases, all user accounts, and have them be restorable to cPanel, and then copied/downloaded to my local machine via SCP or SFTP so I can burn to a DVD & Store on a RAID 1 hard disk.

Please help! Thanks!

 

If I understand you correctly, you want to extend the pkgacct functions
to be able to backup all accounts instead of just single accounts?

Code:

#!/bin/bash
IFS="$"

cd /home

ls /var/cpanel/users | grep -v "root\|mysql\|nobody" | while read CPUSER; do
   /scripts/pkgacct ${CPUSER}
done

##### INSERT YOUR FTP TRANSFER OR MOVE COMMANDS HERE 

FYI: The same thing can be accomplished directly from WHM if you only want to backup and FTP the backups!