How to backup additional system folders

jceja

• December 11, 2017 16:22

I would like to make cpanel backup additional files, in specific, gitlab's config and repo files. I found this System Backups - Documentation - cPanel Documentation But I don't understand, I should go to
/var/cpanel/backups/extras
and just create empty folders of the folders I'd like to backup? IE. create
/var/cpanel/backups/extras/etc/gitlab
Or how's the best way I could backup those files, thanks!

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 11, 2017 22:11

  Hello, The name of the configuration file within the /var/cpanel/backups/extras/ directory is irrelevant. For example, I created the following file: /var/cpanel/backups/extras/123 Here's the contents of this file:
  # cat /var/cpanel/backups/extras/123 /etc/gitlab/
  Upon the next backup generation, this lead to the successful inclusion of the entire /etc/gitlab/ directory as a compressed file within the /backup/$date/system/dir/ directory. If you want to define specific files instead of the entire directory, the /var/cpanel/backups/extras/123 file would look like this:
  # cat /var/cpanel/backups/extras/123 /etc/gitlab/path/to/file.name /etc/gitlab/path/to/file2.name /etc/gitlab/path/to/file3.name
  Thank you.

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  jceja

  • December 11, 2017 22:29

  Thank you very much, just to be sure, this is what I did:
  [/var/cpanel/backups/extras]# cat gitlab /var/opt/gitlab/ /etc/gitlab/
  I'll check it out when the backup job does it's thing

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