Backups.. are they secure

keat63

• December 14, 2014 08:28

I've scheduled a daily backup and pointed it to a folder (outside of public_html), on a hosting plan I have. Lets says the hosting plan is compromised, and they find my WHM backup, is it secure. IE, could they trawl it and find the root password or anything else ? Thanks

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 15, 2014 14:18

  Hello :) Is it only a backup for the individual account, or are you referring to multiple backups of several different accounts? Thank you.

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  keat63

  • December 15, 2014 14:33

  ]Hello :) Is it only a backup for the individual account, or are you referring to multiple backups of several different accounts? Thank you.

  
  At the moment, I'm only hosting one account, however, there will be multiple accounts at some point in the future.

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 15, 2014 18:40

  You should store the backups in a root-level directory if you plan on storing multiple account backup archives. Otherwise, if that one account is hacked, it could lead to exploits of the other accounts. Thank you.

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