what is best offsite backup tactics ?

[docenta]

Hello what is the best and enought offsite method to restore a server after crash/hack. What folders and what way of backup is enought ?




Thanks.

 

[chirpy]

If you use the FTP backup in WHM then you'd simply copy back over the account tarballs and restore them.

If you do a local full WHM backup and rsync that off-server, then I use this method:
http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?p=253694#post253694

 

[dalem]

I make a local backup & scp in a cron job to another server
but its up to you how you want to impliment your disaster recovery

if server 1 crashes server 2 all ready has the backups just restore all ( they ones from the crashed sever since they are in there own directry)
same DNS

 

[docenta]

Yes now I make rsync full server backup but how to restore it after crash or something ? Mean with CPanel accounts tar.gz it is easy to restore but rsync copy all 1:1 ... Is not CPanel backup with copy of /var/lib/mysql quite enought for a server restore after clean install of OS and CPanel ?



Thanks.