Is there a backup guide?

Hello everyone,

Am looking at setting up another server as a backup server and wanted to know if there is any guides out there for backing up to another server via SSH?

Do i need to use rocky or alma or can i use an ubuntu server. can the users directly restore the data if they are logged in to there user account.

Sorry if someone has posted this i did search but didnt see any

Thank you for reading.

Thanks!

Hi,

If you want to use new backup system and store backups on the remote server then the backup server must support OpenSSH and rsync.

OpenSSH and rsync are supported by any Linux distro (Alma, Rocky, Debian, Ubuntu, etc). OpenSSH and rsync can be running on Windows OS too. So there is no strict OS requirement.

Backups can be restored by the admin (root) only. The CWP user doesn't have permissions and options to run the restoration process.

Hi @cyberspace

So you mean just create a script to backup each home folder then rsync it to the back up server?

Thanks
Dave

CWP provides two backup systems. Look here:
https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/control-web-panel/cwp-admin/server-management/cwp-backups/

It will explain you how to set up tasks to make backups.

If the backup systems provided by CWP satisfy your requirements then you don't need to create your own script for backups.