backup to another server

uk01

• April 06, 2015 22:22

Hi there, At the moment our cpanel vps's backup to themselves then transfers the backups to a remote ftp server, however this is currently causing issues because we have to make the vps's on ESXi bigger than necessary. We are also moving to SSD soon and would prefer WHM was not thrashing the SSD drives with 40gb of writes every night. I have read about "mounting" a network drive to linux and possibly using that to back up to. A possibility was FreeNAS running on a backupsy.com vps. It seems to run fine and I can connect to the nas from home but I'm worried about security. Is FreeNAS really necessary or are we able to simply mount a folder on another linux server directly onto the cpanel server and back up to it. Abit like we mount a dropbox folder on our desktop and save to it? I'd just love to find a way of doing this so cpanel backups save directly to the backup server instead of locally first then transferring to remote. Or am I dreaming?

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  24x7server

  • April 07, 2015 12:18

  Hello, For this type of backup setup, I will suggest you install cPremote backup plugin for the backup and enable incremental backup. With this plugin you can setup remote FTP backup with incremental format so that you will get any performance issues in the backup time

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  cPanelMichael

  • April 09, 2015 17:01

  Hello, It's important to note that even when you store backups on a remote server, the backup generation process still occurs locally (the local backups are pruned after transportation to the remote destination). There is a feature request and response from a developer at:

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  uk01

  • April 09, 2015 21:35

  Hello, For this type of backup setup, I will suggest you install cPremote backup plugin for the backup and enable incremental backup. With this plugin you can setup remote FTP backup with incremental format so that you will get any performance issues in the backup time

  
  Yeah I came across Cpromote and it looked ideal but I was put off by a few forum posts elsewhere from people who had issues with restores. Might be worth another look

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  uk01

  • April 09, 2015 21:37

  Hello, It's important to note that even when you store backups on a remote server, the backup generation process still occurs locally (the local backups are pruned after transportation to the remote destination). There is a feature request and response from a developer at:

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