Manually initiate backup with Amazon S3

tribulant

• March 03, 2014 06:05

Good day, I installed the CURRENT release 11.42 which has the Amazon S3 destination feature for backups. How can I manually initiate a backup to /backups and also to Amazon S3 instead of waiting? I just want to test it to ensure it works to have peace of mind. Thank you for your assistance.

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  Infopro

  • March 03, 2014 11:37

  I believe this command would force backups to run: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup --force
  

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  tribulant

  • March 04, 2014 13:53

  [quote="Infopro, post: 1585872">I believe this command would force backups to run: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup --force
  
  Thanks, I'll try it out. Is this for the new backup system or the legacy backup system? All commands I found in the documentation and online keep telling me that the legacy backup system is disabled. That's the idea... I want to use the new backup system with Amazon S3 destination in version 11.42

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 04, 2014 15:31

  Yes, you can force a generation of backups with the new backup system via: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup --force The legacy backup system uses: /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/cpbackup Thank you.

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  tribulant

  • March 04, 2014 17:13

  [quote="cPanelMichael, post: 1587211">Yes, you can force a generation of backups with the new backup system via: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup --force The legacy backup system uses: /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/cpbackup Thank you.
  Excellent, thank you very much! This was very useful and I'm sure that others will find it useful too.

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  luminary

  • November 10, 2014 14:44

  [quote="cPanelMichael, post: 1587211">Yes, you can force a generation of backups with the new backup system via: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup --force The legacy backup system uses: /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/cpbackup Thank you.
  When I did this, I received the following error in the log file: /bin/gtar: /var/cpanel: file changed as we read it [backup] Failed to perform full backup of /var/cpanel/ to /backup/2014-11-10/system/dirs/_var_cpanel.tar.gz
  Is this only because it was a forced backup? Will a regularly scheduled backup work?

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  cPanelMichael

  • November 12, 2014 19:17

  It failed due to the following message: [QUOTE]/bin/gtar: /var/cpanel: file changed as we read it
  The /var/cpanel directory or it's contents changed as it was read. It's likely a rare occurrence for that to happen, but monitor your backup logs in /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup to see if it continues to occur. Thank you.

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