backups

Hello all, I have several VPS servers running C Panel and I am using OVH Hosting as the auto backup system for each. I am looking for a cheaper way to do daily backups rather than spending almost $20 per server each month. If anyone can suggest a safe, reliable and more affordable way to do...

Hello, I have a VPS running CentOS & WHM/Cpanel, and I have another external account to store backups of VPS accounts. I configured WHM to backup every account using FTP on that second account and it works perfectly : it stores daily backups on separate folders named /BACKUPS/2020-12-15...

Searched but couldn't find a solution here or with Google searches. Set up Google. Drive as additional backup location (did this twice, same outcome). Works fines for a couple days. Then throws this error. Unable to send “/backup/2020-12-08/accounts/music4u.tar.gz” to destination...

I tried to restore a folder from WHM and when I clicked the restore button I got: Error: The system encountered an error during the attempt to restore the file. For details, check this error log, or contact your hosting provider: /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log Checking the log I see: The...

HI, I'm backing up my files to AWS using the WHM Backup Configuration. How can I tell what time this is happening? Thank you, Kim

Hello I recently install a new Cpanel server, When i try to validate destination in "backup configuration" via WHM, I get the following error: Validation for transport “backup” failed: Could not upload test file: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process...

Hi, I'm configuring backups with WHM/cPanel's system and I need your help for the last settings: 1- Is safe use the directory "/backup" for do the backups?. If any client's web have malware and the system copy this files to "/backup" for create the backups can broke the server?. 2- The...

HI, My backup size is 216GB . I store 2 weekly and 3 daily Today i got a disk warn about low space. The backup duration is also long , it is 8 hours ! i removed compression to save time , but it not helps about space i have excluded something from backup with global exclude file. i am thinking...

I'm running very low on server storage, so I'm trying to eliminate anything that's not necessary. I vaguely remember setting something up a long time ago to link /home/user/logs to show log file backups for the account, but I can't think of any time that's ever been used. The times that I do...

Hi all, As I have experienced this kind of disaster, I would like to avoid it in future thus I want to know if it is already a cPanel's feature. The disaster I mentioned is the converging of different backup schedules. Let's say I have scheduled 3 backups Daily backup (runs daily) Weekly backup...

Hi, Is there a way to limit the number of cPanel backups users can store on their hosting account? Regards, Mechanic

Hi guys, Today I needed to restore a backup but here is what happened: Not sure is it related but a week ago I chown by mistake most of the /home users files and folders. And I thought I restored. But maybe I miss something? Help please!

I am facing an intermittent issue with backup transport to Amazon S3. The majority of accounts copy across just fine, however one or two accounts fail with the error message: Upload attempt failed: Amazon::S3: Amazon responded with 403 Forbidden at...

My nightly backup failed due to running out of disk space, so I cleared out enough to run them and attempted to re-run the backups manually, but it returned with this error: # /scripts/cpbackup --force [cpbackup] Backup Not Enabled (This can be adjusted in WHM => Backup => Legacy Backup...

Hello, I transfered my old cpanel backups to /backup/2020-06-01/accounts/ how i can restore all these backups automatically ? ( not one by one , or select one by one to queue) i need select all and restore all backups to new server. ( i dont have access to old server for using transfer...

Hi, I'm configuring a new remote server for backups. I need know: Which is better cPanel "destination type" for do backups: FTP SFTP Rsync Which you recommend me for have better backup's integrity?. Thank you very much.

I have set up a backup to a mounted HDD from WHM and I can see all system files being backed up when I access it via WinSCP, but the accounts folder is empty. In the backup e-mail I get that the accounts were backed up and that the backup was successful. ie Successfully backed up account...

i'm looking at the Databases section of the documentation for WHM Backup Configuration. It lists three options for database backups: Per Account Only — Only back up the databases for each account. This setting uses the mysqldump utility. Entire MySQL Directory — Back up all of the databases on...

Hi My colleagues and I had discussions about relying on full cpanel support. I read several different articles but did not find a direct answer. That's why I created a new topic here. According to the server configuration, as a normal user in cpanel, when you click to create a full backup...

After the most recent WHM update, my cron is giving the following error: Use of uninitialized value $cmd in pattern match (m//) at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/BUse of uninitialized value $cmd in pattern match (m//) at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/Backup/Sync.pm line 489. ackup/Sync.pm line 489.