Hey Guys I have a VPS (vistual private server) that I want to backup for the first time. I have a few options but I'm not sure which one is generally considered to be the best. My server has Parallels Power Panel, cPanel, and WHM. All of them have backup functions. Should I choose one or do all? I'm assuming that cPanel will back up the site only and not my server settings. I'm also assuming that the Parallels Power Panel will backup my server setting, but I'm not 100% sure if if will backup 100% of the files needed for a full restore in case something goes down. About the WHM panel....I'm not sure how that backup process compares with the others. Better or worse? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Eric
I'd give all three a try and then compare then to see what gets backed up. On my vps though I just run my backup script, "backshitup.sh" which consists of this: Set up a cron job to run backshitup.sh and another cron job on my local file server to run pull the backup from my webserver. Works well enough for me.
In English? heh Sorry, I just don't understand your answer...too much of a noob here. I made a backup through Virtuozzo. Is that the highest level of backup that I can get? All files on the server are backed up or just the server settings? Thanks!
WHM backup. If you have root access, you could tarball the whole directory, then dump your db in phpMyAdmin or whatever. Or, you could use something written for backing up, e.g.: http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
Reply If you want simply backup all the files which you want then one simple way is just note down the syntax cp [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY cp [OPTION]... --target-directory=DIRECTORY SOURCE... Examples cp file1.txt newdir cp /home/public_html/mylog.txt /home/public_html/backup/mylog.bak
