Backup to multiple locations

WorkinOnIt

• August 02, 2017 20:07

Hi all I am not sure if I am missing something - but I want to simply have several backup jobs like this; 1) Have a weekly full compressed backup going to S3 2) Have a daily incremental, uncompressed backup to local disk 3) (in version 66) have a twice weekly backup (compressed) going to Google Drive. So - the six million dollar question is - how to set up these individual backup jobs? It seems to me that I can only choose one backup job in WHM. Is that correct or if not, I must be missing how to add further backup jobs? EDIT: For clarity, perhaps the title of this post should be "More than one backup job" but I wasn't able to see how to edit it. Thanks

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  cPanelMichael

  • August 03, 2017 16:37

  Hello, When you select incremental backups, the system will not change or alter the state of your other non-incremental backup destinations. However, it's not possible to configure separate retention periods for each destination at this time. I encourage you to vote for the existing feature request for that at: Ability to control retention for S3 Backup Destination Thank you.

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  WorkinOnIt

  • August 04, 2017 02:26

  Hi It's not so much retention period - I just want to be able to create e.g. 3 separate back up jobs (different locations and retention). I assume it would be possible through separate cron jobs - just wondering why there is not any UI support for that! Thanks PS I got email notification of a reply from another user, but that post is missing from this thread - is there a problem with your system or were they removed? Just curious and wanted to let you know.

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  Infopro

  • August 04, 2017 09:17

  Just curious and wanted to let you know.

  
  Sometimes we'll remove posts that are spam, make no sense, or are inaccurate in some way and take away from the thread's issue. There are zero issues with our system. :)

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  cPanelMichael

  • August 04, 2017 19:45

  It's not so much retention period - I just want to be able to create e.g. 3 separate back up jobs (different locations and retention). I assume it would be possible through separate cron jobs - just wondering why there is not any UI support for that!

  
  Here's the default backup cron job found in /var/spool/cron/root:
  0 2 * * * /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup
  You could edit this cron job to run multiple times per day, but there's no support for using a different destination or retention setting each time it runs. Thank you.

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