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[BonsaiRack]

What do you prefer in terms of backup for a cpanel server, or what is your suggestions. I can do incremental or tar.gz backup.

I do offsite backup, so rsync is a plus. But, with tar.gz backup, everyday all accounts are trasfered.

If I do incremental, I dont have tar.gz, however less transfer.

What do you do or do you suggest ?

[Adam-AEC]

Daily full backup by cpanel. Rsync the /backup(s)/daily folder offside shortly after.

Use the --rsyncable flag for GZip in the cPanel backup script. There is a good thread about it in the cPanel forums.

First backup is large, the rest is just the differences in files (how rsync is supposed to be).

[BonsaiRack]

Originally Posted by Adam-AEC

Use the --rsyncable flag for GZip in the cPanel backup script. There is a good thread about it in the cPanel forums.

Care to explain a bit more on it ? or maybe provide a link ?

[Adam-AEC]

Not sure of the specifics but I'll try to explain. The 'rsyncable' flag causes Gzip to store the compressed data in a format that allows RSync to perform it's differential operations, allowing it to transmit only the changes over the wire.

You always have an up-to-date remote backup offsite, without the cost of transfering X^X worth of bandwidth daily.

Link to the cpanel forums is below.
http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=47076

[SoftDux]

Let's say I have a space HDD in the server, for the purpose of backups on the server (quick restores), and a second server, in anothe DC, for the purposes of backups.

Now, I setup cPanel's back up back daily / weekly / monthly, and this get's done to the second HDD on /backup.

How would I set a script to run rsync in order to rsync the backsup to the offsite backup? Can the script automatically be triggered, somehow?

[BonsaiRack]

It is done via a crontab command. A crontab is a scheduled task.

The thread given by Adam-AEC explains it.