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04-09-2012, 01:38 AM #1Premium Member
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Backup Solutions
Just want to get a quick opinion on peoples choices for their backup solutions.
I know of the following options:
1. R1Soft
2. WHM Built in
3. cPremote
4. Custom RSYNC solutions.
Lately I've been testing cpremote, and although it seems to work - the e-mail you get is less than sufficient:
cPremote Backup cron completed on your server. This does not mean your backup completed.
I've heard people complain about R1Soft's ability to restore mysql databases.. so not sure about that one. Not to mention the cost is fairly high.
I really like WHM's built in backup - except it can bring a servers to it's knees if a user has a lot of files, or some larger already compressed files. Was backing up using that, then copying it all off-site with CrashPlan Pro. Works great, except I got tired of it bringing the server to a crawl for like an hour +.
Wanted to see what others are using/recommending...
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04-09-2012, 02:45 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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R1Soft CDP was great in version 2 (albit the cost was high) can't say that I like version 3 as much, but it's certainly a worth while option, and it's very easy for most people to setup.
If you don't mind playing around with open source software Bacula is a very good option, I use it on a few servers with some great results.BotWars.io - Code the AI of your Battle Bot!
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04-09-2012, 02:19 PM #3Junior Guru
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Tarsnap is only thing I will ever use..
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04-09-2012, 10:52 PM #4Intangible Asset Appraiser
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I use custom rsync / file and db synchronization and snapshots in any *nix platform. If on Winderz, it all depends on what it's running, but, that comes up about 1 out of 10 times here on WHT...
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04-10-2012, 12:15 AM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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R1 soft is the best backup solution you can get for your servers.
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04-10-2012, 01:12 AM #6Newbie
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Instead of rsync you could use rdiff-backup, which does about the same and makes snapshots too.
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04-10-2012, 02:03 AM #7Disabled
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hello,
our favourite ones are tsm (IBM - very expensive, but you can pretty much do anything with it), and bacula (very flexible, works very well), and of course your occasional custom rsync/rdiff. Only mentioning explicit backup solutions, not dump, replication, or snapshot scripts, etc.
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04-10-2012, 01:03 PM #8Web Hosting Evangelist
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Amazon S3 storage is dirt cheap, and there are many third party tools (commercial and open source) that can facilitate secure (encrypted transfer, and storage on S3) offsite backups.
You could look into cloudberry, s3sync, s3fs, etc that utilize S3.Stack Star | Shift8 Web
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04-10-2012, 04:26 PM #10Web Hosting Evangelist
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Definitely. I'm not sure if there is still a limitation on single file transfers at 500mb per file. I know it was in place a while ago.
Its perfect for a quick & dirty offsite backup method, and it offers encrypted transfer and encrypted storage options for added security.
Other options would be much more money unfortunately.Stack Star | Shift8 Web
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04-13-2012, 01:16 AM #11Premium Member
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I've been looking into the S3 options. Are there many (if any) that are capable of doing restores from cPanel / WHM?
(thinking from a user convenience standpoint)
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04-21-2012, 09:24 PM #13Junior Guru
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so, build-in cPanel + S3 sound good?
I use R1soft, but I find it costly and use a lot of bandwidth. I have my own server, I only lease lic.. I have about 1.5TB of R1Soft backup (I keep a lot).
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04-22-2012, 03:58 AM #14WHT Addict
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Hi,
I currently use WHM built in backups to an NFS server. This then RSync's to a replicated copy in case the NFS server fails.
If a customer specifies a VPS needs backing up I use a LVM snapshotting tool and RSync.
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04-22-2012, 12:07 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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Hello,
I would recommend taking a look at duplicity using duply as a command wrapper. Works extremely well, you can pick from a number of drivers to backup to. You can backup to imap, gdocs, ftp, ssh, amazon s3, rackspace cloud, there are many options and if you're savvy in python, you can develop your own drivers to backup to. I personally backup to amazon s3 using duplicity / duply. You can set it up to backup a full-backup every 2 weeks or however you wish, then it will do increments on the off days and it will automatically purge old backups with the settings you setup, very easy to configure and customize. The full backup tool ~1 hour to do about 30gb of data. This is nice and ionice'd, and the increment backup will only backup files that have changed. You can set it up to ignore certain files, a pre and post script. Here is my configuration files for duply:
conf:
GPG_KEY='disabled'
TARGET='s3+http://[user:password]@bucket_name[/prefix]'
SOURCE='/'
MAX_AGE=1M
MAX_FULL_BACKUPS=1
MAX_FULLBKP_AGE=1M
VOLSIZE=100
DUPL_PARAMS="$DUPL_PARAMS --volsize $VOLSIZE "
exclude:
/var/run/**
/tmp/**
/dev/**
/sys/**
/proc/**
/selinux/**
pre: (be sure to modify username / password / hostname)
#!/bin/bash
USERNAME="";
PASSWORD="";
HOSTNAME="";
databases=`mysql -h $HOSTNAME -u $USERNAME -p$PASSWORD -sNe 'SHOW DATABASES'`
mkdir /var/lib/mysql_backups -p
cd /var/lib/mysql_backups
for i in $databases; do
mysqldump --skip-lock-tables -h $HOSTNAME -u $USERNAME -p$PASSWORD $i > $i.sql
done;
post:
#!/bin/bash
rm -rf /var/lib/mysql_backups
You will want the RPMforge or EPEL repo's (can't remember which, but I do use both, lol) for a centos box to be able to install duply and duplicity:
yum install duply duplicity
If you have any questions regarding duply / duplicity feel free to message me and i'd gladly help you as much as I can.
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04-22-2012, 07:21 PM #16Premium Member
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Hi,
You're obviously talking about Cpanel servers.
The best Cpanel backups are the ones it creates itself, so I'd highly recommend adding a second backup drive or local nfs/isci mount. Then use the Cpanel incremental backup without compression for fast backups with minimal load.
Then for disaster recovery use R1Soft to replicate the backup drive/data offsite.
This works very well for us.OSHS Ltd
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04-23-2012, 02:22 PM #17Junior Guru
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Did you try duplicity with small backup ? Like one hour? or even 5 mins?
edit: Forget that, wont work except if you do a cpanel backup every 5 mins.
edit2: In fact, could work if you backup /home like the script ( http://www.cenolan.com/2008/12/how-t...-s3-duplicity/ ) but won't backup mysql database and restore is not automoted by the user within cPanel.Last edited by excessnet; 04-23-2012 at 02:31 PM.
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04-23-2012, 02:49 PM #18Junior Guru
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I just found about Bacula... i'll search a bit more on that!
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