First off, when you perform a full account backup through cPanel, does it backup EVERYTHING? Files, databases, cron jobs, etc etc ... anything and everything on that particular account?

Secondly, how do you restore a full backup? Through WHM?

Third: Is there a way to have WHM auto-backup accounts on a daily / weekly basis (cron-type script)?

I am going to start backup up client's accounts once a week or so, but I am looking for some info first about the process, and then some info about the most convienant way to go about doing it.

Thanks for your help!

-Sam

A full backup does save everything -- settings, files, etc.. You can restore it by uploading it to your backup directory on your server and clicking the appropriate buttons on WHM (requires root). cPanel has a backup tool -- you may want to check that out (again, requires root whm).

Yes it gets everything, both your clients files and setting files needed for cPanel.

You can setup cPanel to do incremental backups (only what has changed) if you're saving the backup to a local drive. Or you can set it to backup to an FTP server (it requires that it compresses everything, thus no incremental backups).

You can also set it up to only do backups daily, or store daily and 1 weekly, or daily, 1 weekly and 1, etc.

And be sure to frequently check your backups, because cpbackup is BUGGY!

If you have root access, you can package the account with the /scripts/pkgacct command invoked as:

/scripts/pkgacct cpanelusername

It works pretty well in my opinion.

Roj

Exactly, you can also do this through (if you indeed have root) WHM in the restore account feature!