Creating automatic backups

[gamer12345]

Hi all,

If this is the wrong forum section then my apologies I did not know where else I should post this.

I know that I can create automatic System backups (Admin panel -> Admin tools -> System backup). But I have a question about it

Is it possible to create a automatic system backup to a external place? (i.e. NAS of 4 TB at home) because IF my dedicated server would crash and I would lose everything, I would also lose the backups which are stored on there.

I hope you guys can help me with this

Regards,

GameR12345

 

[Arieh]

The system backup offers the option to choose a remote location, ftp and scp - just look at the page, it's right there

Also you say you would lose everything, I'm not sure if you are aware of that the System backups is usually only useful for backing up config files and such. Backups created by the Sytem backup can't be restored automatically.

If you use the "Admin Backup/Transfer", you will get all data of users (sql/mail/dns/files etc), and you can restore them as if they were never gone.

The only thing (in terms of user data) is roundcube, it's not part of the admin backup (yet) http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=347

 

[gamer12345]

Ah ok so I need the "Admin backup/transfer" because I just want to backup everything (the websites I host, config, sql, users etc as you said) but I looked and it is not possible to do automatically and to a extern location? :#

 

[Arieh]

It's certainly possible to backup automatically and to a external location.

At the admin backup, look under Step 2: When, to configure the cron to automatically run, then Step 3: Where, you can choose FTP and fill in host/user/pass/path etc.

 

[northtones]

We actually do this for about 20 servers. We just have a basic FreeBSD (anything would work that can accept an FTP connection) machine in our office with 4TB of space. Fortunately we have 60Mbps down for our office connection, but you could certainly do this with much less bandwidth and on a smaller scale. All you really need is something that can run Unix / Linux with a fair amount of disk space, and an internet connection and you should be set.

 

[nobaloney]

Fortunately we have 60Mbps down for our office connection, but you could certainly do this with much less bandwidth and on a smaller scale.

Do you have enough upstream bandwidth to make restores a viable option. We to have 60 mbps down at the office, but only 6 mbps up, so we keep our backup servers in datacenters. We offer both on-site and off-site backups to our clients.

Jeff