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Arty
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« on: June 27, 2011, 07:50:23 AM »

The cpanel backup and restore functions seem like an easy way to maintain backups.  I'm just confused by this statement:

"you cannot restore full backups through your C-panel interface"

What does that mean?  It seems to say that I can make a backup but can't restore it.  Obviously I'm missing something 'cause that would be useless.

Also, I want to be sure I know what is meant by backing up the "home" directory.   I assume that is the directory containing etc, mail, public_html, www and other top level folders and that everything in those directories is also (recursively) saved.

Thanks to anyone who can enlighten me.

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« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2011, 08:33:02 AM »

A full backup includes databases and other items as well as your files on the server. It must be restored by support. A backup of the home directory should include everything as you stated, but does not have the databases which must be backed up separately.

You should regularly make your own backups and store them locally, not on the server. Although LP advises they backup daily, I have seen them loose an entire site (actually an entire server), on  which they could not restore any customer data. They simply advised ALL the backups were corrupted. Customers that did not have backups of one sort or another had no recourse but to start over from scratch.
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« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2011, 04:42:18 PM »

Thanks for the reply.

So, if I use c-panel to backup the components (home, databases, email forwarders, email filters) individually, I can restore them myself.  I just need to stay away from the all-in-one, "full" backup.

Not sure why that is, but I can live with it.
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