/scripts/pkgacct with email accounts and without public_html

[kbs]

Hello to everybody

I have 4 WHM servers and they are all working very well, i have the servers making backups all weekends and transfering those backups to the others servers.

But i'd like to have a local backup in my office of all my customers, but I don't want to backup too much data. So I was thinking to make a backup with skip-homedir, but with that flag the mail accounts don't back up, and that's not good for me. So:

I want to backup all my accounts but WITHOUT public_html, WITH email accounts, and WITHOUT emails

How can I do that?

Thanks!

 

[Infopro]

You might consider adding directories you don't want backed up to the cpbackup-exclude.conf file( - cPanel Documentation). There was a thread a while back that explains how someone else was able to exclude certain email directories. You might be able to come up with something from it.

Question about cpbackup-exclude.conf - cPanel Forums

 

[kbs]

Hello and thank you for your answer

I'm playing with that file and I found that /scripts/pkgacct does not obey cpbackup-exclude.conf, you have to use /scripts/cpbackup, but the thing is that that script makes a backup of ALL accounts ... (or at least I could'nt find the way to make a backup from just one account yet)

 

[kbs]

I found it, you have to use the following command:

/scripts/pkgacct <username> <destination_dir> --backup

that way pkgacct do obey /home/<username>/cpbackup-exclude.conf

I'm using the next cpbackup-exclude.conf:

*/tmp
*/.spam
*/.Drafts
*/.Junk
*/.Trash
*/.trash
*/error_log
*/cur

 

[Infopro]

Glad you were able to find your way to get done what you needed to. Thanks for posting back your findings for others to refer to as well.