Local default backup destination

Tarak Nath

• May 27, 2019 02:27

Hello, By mistake we have installed WHM/cPanel and hosted the site over there on our brand new dedicated server without checking disk partition. The maximum storage is allocated to '/home' which is not required as we will not host more than one site on this server. Current local backup destination is '/backup'. Everything is fine without any issue. Now we have noticed that we can not keep more backup retention in '/backup' as the maximum storage are allocated to '/home' not to '/'. Below is the current disk configuration: [root@server1 ~]# df -TH Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/centos-root xfs 54G 18G 36G 34% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 34G 0 34G 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 34G 0 34G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 34G 120M 34G 1% /run tmpfs tmpfs 34G 0 34G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda2 xfs 1.1G 195M 869M 19% /boot /dev/sda1 vfat 210M 12M 198M 6% /boot/efi /dev/mapper/centos-home xfs 1.4T 7.6G 1.4T 1% /home /dev/loop0 ext3 2.3G 3.9M 2.2G 1% /tmp tmpfs tmpfs 6.7G 0 6.7G 0% /run/user/0
Our server info: [root@server1 ~]# /usr/local/cpanel/cpanel -V 78.0 (build 24) [root@server1 ~]# cat /var/cpanel/envtype standard [root@server1 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core)
I think resize partition should be complexity as the server and site is online. However if we change the default backup destination from '/backup' to '/home/backup' through WHM [Home "Backup "Backup Configuration] then there should be anything that needs to be modified or is there any negative impact ? Any suggestion should be appreciated. Regards, Tarak Nath

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  cPanelLauren

  • May 28, 2019 18:47

  However if we change the default backup destination from '/backup' to '/home/backup' through WHM [Home "Backup "Backup Configuration] then there should be anything that needs to be modified or is there any negative impact ?

  
  The only thing this would impact would be quotas if you're using them. Quotas are automatically disabled on filesystems when backups are set to /home/

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  Tarak Nath

  • May 28, 2019 18:52

  Thank you for the response. So we can use '/home/backup'

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  cPanelLauren

  • May 28, 2019 18:53

  You can indeed use it.

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  Tarak Nath

  • May 28, 2019 18:58

  Thanks again @cPanelLauren , We will use it and update you if any issue occurred.

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