Automated Remote Backup for CPanel Clients - Idea

[Israel.lopez]

Hey,

I was wondering whats out there for scheduled/automated cpanel backup for CPanel clients. I have some clients who want to backup (outside of my own backup) to a remote server.

They want to
- Backup MySQL DB's Hourly
- Backup The site content every month

They run a popular forum, and they want backups that will fill in for the 'gaps' for daily backups.

Is there something out there? Already a script that someone wrote? A backup service?

-Israel

 

[UBERHOST]

If you're using bqbackup, you could offer them their own backup account for a nominal fee. They offer their proprietary backup control panel for an extra $20 a month so that you can divide up your backup space into user accounts for just such a purpose.

Just ask email [email protected] for all the details, if interested.

 

[mambovince]

For MySQL, I find the following script is very good:
www.mysqlbackup.info

I auto-backup all my DB's to a different server on a daily basis.

Not sure about a similar script that does the same for full /public_html/
directory backups, but would love to know.

- Vince

 

[hydra]

Hi,

Maybe backuppc does what you need.
Have a look at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
I am using it myself.

Ronald.

 

[vikins]

Hi,

Maybe backuppc does what you need.
Have a look at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
I am using it myself.

Ronald.

Wow, that looks like a pretty impressive, but complicated program. Did it take you a long time to get it all working? Also, what are you running it on? I'd want to run it on WinXP and also CentOS 4.x. Sounds like both of those would have to be manual installs.

 

[hydra]

Wow, that looks like a pretty impressive, but complicated program. Did it take you a long time to get it all working? Also, what are you running it on? I'd want to run it on WinXP and also CentOS 4.x. Sounds like both of those would have to be manual installs.

Hi,

It looks more complicated than it is.
You will have it up and running within a day.
I have it running on a P4 2Ghz with 512MB with some BIG hd's inside.
It runs under Linux and backups all my servers and home network to.
With the web-interface you can configure everything, manage users and give them access to backups and restores.
The program is very efficient and does not store doubles so space is not wasted. Also no agents are needed on the client machines.

Ronald

BackupPC Features
* A clever pooling scheme minimizes disk storage and disk I/O. Identical files across multiple backups of the same or different PCs are stored only once resulting in substantial savings in disk storage and disk I/O.
* One example of disk use: 95 latops with each full backup averaging 3.6GB each, and each incremental averaging about 0.3GB. Storing three weekly full backups and six incremental backups per laptop is around 1200GB of raw data, but because of pooling and compression only 150GB is needed.
* Optional compression support further reducing disk storage. Since only new files (not already pooled) need to be compressed, there is only a modest impact on CPU time.
* No client-side software is needed. The standard smb protocol is used to extract backup data on WinXX clients. On linux clients, tar over ssh/rsh/nfs is used to backup the data. With version 2.0.0, rsync is also supported on any client that has rsync or rysncd.
* A powerful web (http/cgi) user interface allows administrators to view log files, configuration, current status and allows users to initiate and cancel backups and browse and restore files from backups.
* A full set of restore options is supported, including direct restore (via smbclient, tar, or rsync/rsyncd) or downloading a zip or tar file.
* Supports mobile environments where laptops are only intermittently connected to the network and have dynamic IP addresses (DHCP).
* Flexible configuration parameters allow multiple backups to be performed in parallel, specification of which shares to backup, which directories to backup or not backup, various schedules for full and incremental backups, schedules for email reminders to users and so on. Configuration parameters can be set system-wide or also on a per-PC basis.
* Users are sent periodic email reminders if their PC has not recently been backed up. Email content, timing and policies are configurable.
* Tested on Linux, Freenix and Solaris hosts, and Linux, Win95, Win98, Win2000 and WinXP clients.
* Detailed documentation.
* Open Source hosted by SourceForge and freely availble under GPL.

 

[vikins]

Thanks for the info, I definitly want to try this. My main host machine for this would be a WinXP box. I didn't see any install version of Windows. It is a "do it on your own" kind of install for windows I guess?

Thanks again.

 

[procam]

Ok whos doing these installs/setups for a fee ? Anyone?
I got thru the entire install process in 1 unit and the configure.pl ran fine - I feel like such a NEWB now I cant get it to execute so I cannot go forward any further. Im lost man I wish some of these great programs were a bit easier to use

 

[nsetiono]

just want to ask a question if the backup script from http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ supporting cpanel and can work well on cpanel server