incremental backups can only be restored from the night before

NTar

• July 12, 2015 06:51

Hey guys, I've got a strange issue going around here. I've managed to step over from full backups to incremental backups, since full backups are taking waaay too much space at this time. Unfortunately, after setting up those incremental backups, it seems I can only revert an user one day back in time. I've changed the settings a bit (to see if that was the problem), but after two weeks I can only restore a user from the night before. I've tried to search around here, unfortunately I didn't find any solution. Could you guys please help me? My settings are listed below. Global Settings Backup status: Enable Backup type: Incremental Maximum destination timeout: 50.000 in seconds (I receive a 'completed backup' mail every night, no strange issue's here) Scheduling and Retention Backup daily: Monday till Sunday Backup weekly: off Backup monty: off Files Backup Accounts: Enable Backup Suspended Accounts: Enable Backup Access Logs: Enable Backup Bandwidth Data: Disable Use Local DNS: Disable Databases Backup SQL Databases: Per Account and Entire MySQL Directory Configure Backup Directory Default backup directory: /backup Retain backups in the default backup directory: No Mount Backup Drive as Needed: Disable Oh, BTW: I'm running CentOS 6.6 x86_64 kvm with cPanel 11.50 (build 23) and have still 100 GB left (from 200 GB total). Thanks! - NTar :)

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  Infopro

  • July 13, 2015 11:10

  You're backing up to the same HDD that your accounts are on?

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  NTar

  • July 13, 2015 11:11

  Yes, indeed.

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  Infopro

  • July 13, 2015 11:26

  What use are backups if that drive drops over dead on you?

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  NTar

  • July 13, 2015 11:27

  Nothing. ;-) I need those back-ups to revert website's in case of hacks, issues or problems caused by themselves.

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 23, 2015 13:16

  Hello :) Per the incremental backup description: This option allows only one backup. This option will only save changed information. Thus, you can't retain more than one backup when utilizing this option. Feel free to vote and add your feedback to the existing feature request for multiple copies of incremental backups at:

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  NTar

  • July 23, 2015 13:19

  Thanks for getting back to me. I have switched back to full - compressed - back-ups in order to retain 30 back-ups at a time. I'll definitely vote for this function, since I have to hire 6 TB of disk space a month in order to keep my clients happy. :)

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