What is your favorite backup method?

David Beroff · Oct 14, 2020

I have been looking for better ways to back up my websites' data but i am still confusing to choose a best backup method. What is your favorite backup method? Waiting for your shares!

ProResellerHost_Jack · Oct 14, 2020

Hello David,
Backing up your website and data is extremely important in case of a disaster. The general consensus is the following :

3 copies of your data
2 different storage mediums
1 offsite backup

For my personal websites I choose to utilize cpanel backup features, but also backup to my local server at home. That server then gets backed up to a cloud provider. So multiple copies.

Another option is something like using Jet Backup or similar and backing up to Backblaze B2 storage (great pricing and control), Crash plan, rsync.net, and others.

I would highly suggest having an automated backup to an offsite location. This means a location other than the server your site is being hosted on.

If you have any questions or would like me to expand on anything, feel free to let me know.

KaVa2011 · Oct 15, 2020

For us, we are also using the cpanel backup method.

etechsupport · Oct 16, 2020

I'm using CPanel backup method, you can take backup in cloud server

Efe Agbontaen · Oct 17, 2020

The files and the Database are the main things so your control panel backup system should be fine.

But since they will be stored on the same server, or the same company server, I will advice you manually move the backups somewhere else. Because even if they have stable servers with redundancy, an account suspension will affect you.

We are actually working on a service to do this automatically.

Questlot · Oct 19, 2020

I use CPanel backup for my website, its faster and more convenient. If you want to backup your database automatically and periodically to your system you can use SQL BackupFTP.

etechsupport · Oct 20, 2020

Experts recommend the 3-2-1 rule for backup: three copies of your data, two local (on different devices) and one off-site. For most people, this means the original data on your computer, a backup on an external hard drive, and another on a cloud backup service.

fiz · Oct 20, 2020

1. cPanel/WHM Backup: (Home directory and Database separately) You can take a Full backup but will contain everything in that cPanel account, Also select a remote destination in your backup configuration in WHM
2. Using SSH:

Code:

/scripts/pkgacct <cpanel-user> --skiphomedir

and then use rsync to sync the home directory to another server. You can write an SSH script and add it to cron to let this happen by itself every day/week or month. (Recommended because its fastest and use fewer resources) My Favorite.

Be advised, if you don't know how to use SSH, do not go for the second option. You might end up with nothing.

Kaz Wolfe · Oct 26, 2020

fiz said:
Go to Backup > Backup Configuration

Check Enable Backups

Configure Backups by choosing the desired options

Go to the Additional Destinations tab and click select your Destination from the dropdown and click Create New Destination

Add the destination information and click Save Destination

It will automatically copy the backups to the destination server.

For the first step, I created like you guide but it didn't work. I didn't see backup file on destination server after some days.

fiz said:
Create a log file name backup-ssh-logfile and put the script response in it

Create backup-ssh-logfile.log file?

fiz · Oct 26, 2020

Kaz Wolfe said:
For the first step, I created like you guide but it didn't work. I didn't see backup file on destination server after some days.

I cannot really figure out the issue without seeing it. You might need to look into the log files.

Bash:

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup

This directory contains the cPanel backup log files.

Bash:

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup_transporter

This directory contains the cPanel Backup Transporter's log files.

Kaz Wolfe said:
Create backup-ssh-logfile.log file?

Its just a name if you want it to be a .log file then rename it to backup-ssh-logfile.log. I am creating it in /root/ directory that's why I wrote

Bash:

/backup-ssh-logfile

if you want it to be in different directory like /home/ then write

Bash:

/home/backup-ssh-logfile.log

Localnode · Nov 5, 2020

For cPanel servers I use the in-built method to backup to an external source.
I also use ClusterLogics (formerly Bacula4) CDP to a different external source.
In addition to the above - there is also on-site backups done daily.
All of these methods have different retention times.

williammark · Nov 12, 2020

Data is the most important thing. I am using for the storage of data Dropbox, google drive and cpanel as well.

hostguy · Aug 27, 2021

The easiest methond to take backup is from cpanel.
cpanel provides GUI method which makes backup easy and simple.

We can simply take backup with below steps:
Login to cpanel >> Backup Wizard >> Here we can take backup.

For more details we can check how to take backup in cpanel in details.

RoseHosting · Sep 22, 2021

The best backup is the backup made by the hosting company. It is a full server backup of your VPS/Dedicated Server. There is no chance to lose anything.

Harry P · Sep 23, 2021

Backup manually is my method, I don't like build in backup on web hosting control panels because it is a bit hard to control which data I will get backup.

xiamuguizhi · Oct 8, 2021

I use the plug-in service of the vps panel, which will automatically backup and upload to the network disk at the time I set, which is a good choice.

Last month, my vps service provider mistakenly deleted my server, which caused my website to shut down. Fortunately, I had a backup site to the network disk, but I still lost a month’s worth of photos.

Maxoq · Oct 10, 2021

I usually do backups manually although it consumed more time but it gives me what I want to backup.

freddiechambers · Nov 11, 2024

Use cPanel to save the backup..

YilmazServers · Saturday at 12:04 PM

We consider backing up to Google Drive via cPanel the most appropriate and secure option.

What is your favorite backup method?

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