Server Backups

Hello,

I have looked through the forum and looked at the help I could find, but it does not seem there is a way to backup all of the users, in the event of a drive failure.

Am I missing something?

If there is not some automagic way, can you tell me what directories would need to be backed up to "restore" a server and all accounts/settings?

-Robert

Hello,

There is currently no automagic "server backup" button . The best we have at the momment is the user backup in the user panel, but this isn't very effective for server backups.

Directories:

/etc/virtual/*
/var/spool/mail/*
/var/spool/virtual/*
/etc/named.conf
/var/named/*
/var/lib/mysql/*
/etc/proftpd.conf
/etc/proftpd.vhosts.conf
/etc/proftpd.passwd
/etc/httpd/conf/*
/usr/local/directadmin/data/*
/usr/local/directadmin/conf/*

and the big one, for website data:

/home/*

That should be all of them... I don't think I'm forgetting any, but I'll let you know if I find some more. I didn't bother with the logs dir ( /var/log/* )... but you can add it if you want. From that, you could probably setup a cron job to tar.gz the whole works every now and then, or back it up however you see fit

John