What files and directories besides /home do you need to include in all backups?

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pucky

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What files and directories should be specified in the system backup options that will allow a complete restore of a users websites?

Shouldn't this be documented? Im not really interested in system level files and directories. My main concern is ALL USER. That is, if i take a backup of a reseller and or user and move it too another DA server, that it would restore the entire Reseller User to the server without having to fiddle with changes.
 
If you want to make it so you can move to other servers then just use reseller backups instead of the backup system. The backup system is created for backing up files but not designed for restoring on directadmin.

With reseller backups you can fully restore users in directadmin.

Read some on this here:

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=57
 
chatwizrd said:
If you want to make it so you can move to other servers then just use reseller backups instead of the backup system. The backup system is created for backing up files but not designed for restoring on directadmin.

With reseller backups you can fully restore users in directadmin.

Read some on this here:

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=57
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Well then whats the purpose of a system backup? And now that we have provisioned another drive exclusively for user only backup files we are not able to use them because these backups go into the users webspace instead of where we want them to go.
 
The purpose of the backup system is to provide a way for you not to lose important files incase you have problems. It is a system only used by directadmin but not created by them. The backups that are created are just for backing up your system but not for restoring easily. Thats why if you want to restore your directadmin users at a later date you should use the reseller backup method.

Yes you can create backups with the system backup and have it go where you want it to go but if you need to restore plan on many hours and manually restoring the backup piece by piece.

In my opinion the backup system is completely useless in a directadmin point of view as with the backups its generating are basically useless to restore to directadmin. In a system point of mind it is good as you are backing up the crucial files needed for restoring the system.

Personally I think the system wide backup system should be re-written just for directadmin so that it is indeed a method used for backing up and restoring of directadmin software and clients.
 
chatwizrd said:
The purpose of the backup system is to provide a way for you not to lose important files incase you have problems. It is a system only used by directadmin but not created by them. The backups that are created are just for backing up your system but not for restoring easily. Thats why if you want to restore your directadmin users at a later date you should use the reseller backup method.

Yes you can create backups with the system backup and have it go where you want it to go but if you need to restore plan on many hours and manually restoring the backup piece by piece.

In my opinion the backup system is completely useless in a directadmin point of view as with the backups its generating are basically useless to restore to directadmin. In a system point of mind it is good as you are backing up the crucial files needed for restoring the system.

Personally I think the system wide backup system should be re-written just for directadmin so that it is indeed a method used for backing up and restoring of directadmin software and clients.
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This thinking is really flawed. If my box goes down tomorrow, how can i restore backups from a reseller backup if 99% of them never took a backup in the first place? This makes no sense at all.

Are you trying to tell me, that if i wish to migration 200 users to another box that i have to; Log into each resellers account and do a backup? :confused:
 
Yes or mirror the harddrives. I dont know of any other way that is active to do it currently.
 
We've had good results using the system backup and restoring from it.

It's not true that it's not designed for restoring on DA; it is true that there's no script for it; you have to do it yourself.

Since there's lots of threads discussing this (and flaming it) already, please let's not start another here.

Thanks!

Jeff
 
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