Legacy backup retention doesn't work properly

kabatak

• July 06, 2015 10:49

Problem I have found that when using the following settings in legacy backup: Backup Interval: Weekly Backup Retention: Weekly, Monthly the backup runs weekly and monthly. This means that you will not always have a "1 month ago" backup copy, because when the monthly backup runs, it overwrites the previous month's copy. Why is this a problem? I checked my backup copies, I only had July 5, 2015 for both weekly and monthly copies. If something went wrong with my sites today, I do not have a "1 month ago" backup copy to revert back to. How it suppose to work I believe since the setting says "Backup Retention" it should always have "1 month ago" backup copy.

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  24x7ss

  • July 13, 2015 19:38

  Hello, When have you scheduled the weekly backup to run ? The retention keeps the backup of 1 months ago but it depends on which day you have set the backup to run. If you have setup wed, every month's first wed the monthly backup will get changed. Like in your case 5th July.

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  kabatak

  • July 14, 2015 20:54

  @24x7ss That is correct. But I am under the impression it will retain at least a "1 month ago" and also "1 week ago" copy at any given time since the setting says "retention".

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  kabatak

  • July 20, 2015 16:28

  Just following up on this. Is there a way to always have a "1 month ago" backup without using the new backup system?

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 28, 2015 14:40

  Hello :) This issue is addressed with the new backup system. Could you elaborate on why you prefer to use the legacy backup system instead of the new backup system? Thank you.

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  kabatak

  • July 28, 2015 15:37

  Hello :) This issue is addressed with the new backup system. Could you elaborate on why you prefer to use the legacy backup system instead of the new backup system? Thank you.

  
  The new backup system requires a large amount of free disk space for it work. So I, and presumably others who have limited disk space (specially SSD users) are still using legacy backup. Reference here:

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 28, 2015 17:56

  Note that we won't be making changes to the legacy backup system, so it's important to vote and add your feedback to the referenced feature request for the new backup system. Thank you.

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