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cPanel & WHM Feature Requests Topic Backups

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Tags user backups, new backup system, restore backups from cpanel directly, fileman, v86

cPanel UI to configure remote backups

John Carne shared this idea ago

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As a server administrator I would like to allow my cPanel users to define a remote backup schedule (daily, weekly, monthly), retention types (incremental, compressed, and uncompressed) and retention schedules (keep 2 dailies, 2 weekly, 1 monthly, etc.) for their account inside the cPanel interface, giving users control over their own account backups and destinations.

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Schedule backups through the cPanel interface

As a Website Owner, I want to be able to schedule backups through the cPanel interface, so that periodic backups of my site are available.

Allow cPanel users to schedule their own routine backups (e.g. daily monthly weekly) using the transports provided in the new backup system (SFTP FTP etc.).

This is a feature that has been migrated over from the cPanel Forums. All previous comments and discussions concerning this feature can be located at:

http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/ability-schedule-regular-backups-rather-than-only-ondemand-274502.html

Fouadsoft

Allow to enable/Disable Automatic schedule backup for Cpanel users so they can use it instead of use CRON

Add feature for cpanel users to schedule a cpanel backup for his own with customized hours and time.

Also add a WHM control for this to enable/disable for specific use with restriction of number of generated backups per month.

Allow the user to download backups generated from WHM backups for his own.

Allow the select of specific hour in the day to backup it.

Allow WHM backup to run immediately even for specific user or all users.

spaceman

Allow per-account backup transport configurations

I have a hosting customer who requires us to supply a non-standard backup service.

Specifically, he's looking for us to ensure that, once a month, we auto-copy a backup of his hosting account to a remote storage location of his choosing.

I'm sure I can organise a custom cron job for this. But what would be even better would be to be able to manage this via WHM (and/or cPanel) on a per-account basis.

IMHO this represents an upsell opportunity for hosting companies who wish to offer advanced/enhanced backup options to clients who wish to pay for them.

I believe there's the potential for high demand for this sort of personalised backup service. Reason: some hosting customers are paranoid that - if our company goes under - what happens to their sites and their backups? There's a distinct "comfort factor" for the customer if they know what - if the worst happens to our company - then at least they have a relatively recent copy of their site on their own storage facility.

I've offered up this same discussion over here: http://forums.cpanel.net/f49/custom-script-copy-single-backup-file-remote-server-whm-amazon-s3-432922.html

acenetgeorge

Automatic Backup of single cPanel account

As a cPanel user I would like the ability to schedule the generation of an account backup in an automated fashion, allowing me to define a specific number of backups and use remote storage. This would be very similar to the configuration available in WHM.

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benny@cpanel.net ●

While this is not currently possible in the cPanel UI, you can use the command line utilities coupled with the Fullbackup cPaneil API1 call to run a backup as a cronjob:

The call would look like this:

cpapi1 Fileman fullbackup dest server remoteuser password email port remotedirectory

For example, when run as the user:

cpapi1 Fileman fullbackup passiveftp 127.0.0.1 benny password benny@cpanel.net 21 .

If it's run as root, it will need to include the --user flag:

cpapi1 --user=LocalcPanelUser Fileman fullbackup dest server remoteuser password email port remotedirectory

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Tony Kammerer ●

It would be good to have a selectable limit in WHM on how frequent the backups could be scheduled. For shared hosting servers for example, I would not want to allow every account to schedule daily backups due to the added impact but weekly would be ok.

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benny@cpanel.net ● ●

While this is not currently possible in the cPanel UI, you can use the command line utilities coupled with the Fullbackup cPaneil API1 call to run a backup as a cronjob:

The call would look like this:

cpapi1 Fileman fullbackup dest server remoteuser password email port remotedirectory

For example, when run as the user:

cpapi1 Fileman fullbackup passiveftp 127.0.0.1 benny password benny@cpanel.net 21 .

If it's run as root, it will need to include the --user flag:

cpapi1 --user=LocalcPanelUser Fileman fullbackup dest server remoteuser password email port remotedirectory

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Monarobase ●

Alot of our customers already do backups to Dropbox with Installatron. However Installatron backups only work for a list of scripts and not for any custom websites and don't backup e-mail.

Having this feature for tools like Google Drive or Dropbox for end users would be great.

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