modmaster backup plugin review

lolfust1

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Hey, i was searching for incremental backups solution for DA and DA not supporting it, as a old cPanel user who used to jetbackup, we have looked for a solution for that, we tried few backups solutions
tried this trial - http://directadminbackup.com/ - not longer maintained, and even the trial key did not work
http://dabackup.com/ - tried this no answer from support as for directadmin saying plugin curropted
we came across this post on forum - https://forum.directadmin.com/showthread.php?t=57262
trial worked, but we faced some issues configure it, just black "error" with no reason why it happened, for ssh remote connection
i have tried to contact them via their facebook page, they were really friendly and was trying to help to configure the ssh connection, and they guide me step by step to fix the blank error, and even connect to the da to help fixing the issue, we ran couple of backup run test, and it worked like a charm, restore who directory or a file, or db working like magic, there only one missing feature that i mentioned to them, and they said they working on it, the feature that missing is disaster recovery, its super easy for user to restore their backups, and for us we could not release DA hosting and start migrating without backup solution so thumbs up to modmaster and their plugin! keep the good work and waiting for disaster recovery + maybe some docs would be great, execpt that it does the magic and we could start migrate to DA! thanks for all the support ! or you looking for backup plugin i think their plugin is the most complete by now - https://www.modmaster.pro/
 
DAbackup worked fine for us, if you run PHP 7.x as default on the server, you only need to install PHP 5.6 as alternative version and edit the dabackup and darestore files to run with PHP 5.6
 
Some more details:
To fix and make DAbackup incremental backup script from dabackup.com work:

If you have not already installed PHP 5.6, enable it in /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/options.conf
For example
Code:
php1_release=7.3
php1_mode=php-fpm
php2_release=7.2
php2_mode=php-fpm
php3_release=7.1
php3_mode=php-fpm
php4_release=5.6
php4_mode=php-fpm

also set
Code:
ioncube=yes

Then run
Code:
cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/
./build php n

Then edit the following files of dabackup plugin
/usr/local/directadmin/plugins/dabackup/scripts/dabackup
/usr/local/directadmin/plugins/dabackup/scripts/darestore

and change
Code:
/usr/local/bin/php

to
Code:
/usr/local/php56/bin/php

This will make the plugin work
 
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