DA backup conf

[The-REV]

Hi Folks!
How do I to backup my Direct Admin configuration (accounts, reseller packages etc)?
Thanx in advance foy any info...

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

1) The new backup system would be:
Admin Level -> Admin Backup/Transfer
It provides backups for all accounts, their types and packages, etc..

2) The older system is:
Reseller Level -> Manage User Backups
It's very similar, but it provides only User backups and doesn't restore Reseller information (even though it's all in the backup). The only difference between the files themselves is the nameing format.. conents are the same with the Admin Backup/Transfer.

3) A custom system would be:
Admin Level -> System Backup
Which is just an interface to the "sysbk" backup script.
Note that it does not come with a restore tool. It simply creates tar.gz file of whatever you've selected.


Using #1 would be simplest for saving/restoring full accounts.

John

 

[nobaloney]

John, I've just updated to the newest DA version on one of our servers and Admin Backup/Transfer is still marked as BETA. Do you believe it's now stable enough to depend on?

Jeff

 

[smtalk]

jlasman, it's not feature complete (I guess that's why it's marked as BETA), but it's working perfectly Tested on 20+ servers.

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

It's being flipped to RC1 for this upcoming release.
We've had no problem reports with it for quite a while, so we can open up the testing farther.

John

 

[hci]

Does it backup and restore all the DNS records?

Matt

 

[ATN Networks]

Does it backup and restore all the DNS records?

Matt

Yes it will do that

 

[ATN Networks]

Option #2 supports making backups in directory's what's called to the date of the backup. Is there some option to do the same with Option #1?

 

[Chickenwing]

Problem in Admin Backup/Restore

Hello,

1) The new backup system would be:
Admin Level -> Admin Backup/Transfer
It provides backups for all accounts, their types and packages, etc..

2) The older system is:
Reseller Level -> Manage User Backups
It's very similar, but it provides only User backups and doesn't restore Reseller information (even though it's all in the backup). The only difference between the files themselves is the nameing format.. conents are the same with the Admin Backup/Transfer.

3) A custom system would be:
Admin Level -> System Backup
Which is just an interface to the "sysbk" backup script.
Note that it does not come with a restore tool. It simply creates tar.gz file of whatever you've selected.


Using #1 would be simplest for saving/restoring full accounts.

John

Excuse me.. I have used the Admin Level -> Admin Backup/Transfer
to backup my DA. But when I deleted one of user in Admin and restore
admin backup. it shows that restore successfully, but the deleted user a/c
cannot restore. WHY? or the feature doesn't support that kind of function?

Also, when I restore the user backup, it show those error in Message box:
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Unable to exact backup/user.conf from /mnt/backup/admin/user.admin.puppy.tar.gz : Error while extracting backup/user.conf to /mnt/backup/admin/puppy as admin : /bin/tar: /mnt/backup/admin/puppy: Cannot chdir: No such file or directory
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

Cannot read /mnt/backup/admin/puppy/backup/user.conf : Unable to open /mnt/backup/admin/puppy/backup/user.conf for reading.

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[DirectAdmin Support]

Option #2 supports making backups in directory's what's called to the date of the backup. Is there some option to do the same with Option #1?

Yes, use ftp locally.
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=146

Chickenwing:
The backup is done as root, but the extraction/restore isn't as it's extracting the tar.gz file as the new user/owner of the account.

Make sure that your backup directory is readable by the account doing the restore. Set it to 755 for testing... or 777 if that doesn't work. (/mnt/backup)

John