Multiple Daily Backups
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Currently triggering the backup script overwrites the existing backup for that day.It would be nice to have the ability to set down to the hours each day a backup runs.
So you can say that each day the backup system runs at 12:01AM and 12:01PM for example.
Then storing these you simple add the hour/minute to the end of the backup folder.
I like this idea 
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I'd like to get more community feedback on this. To me, I am honestly a bit surprised to see this as a feature request. It is often the case that, due to I/O bottlenecks, server owners traditionally end up dropping the daily backup in favor of an "every other day" or even slightly less frequent backup. The reason often being that backups server-wide for their particular server are unable to complete within a 24 hour window.
A request to allow backups that expect to fully cycle every 12 hours seems like a feature that would not be utilized much at all and result in consistent performance problems for many server owners. It is uncharacteristic of a server owner to want to start backups at noon/prime time customer hours in my experience.
Again, I encourage further feedback/voting here to see if this is indeed a desired feature by cPanel & WHM server owners.
I'd like to get more community feedback on this. To me, I am honestly a bit surprised to see this as a feature request. It is often the case that, due to I/O bottlenecks, server owners traditionally end up dropping the daily backup in favor of an "every other day" or even slightly less frequent backup. The reason often being that backups server-wide for their particular server are unable to complete within a 24 hour window.
A request to allow backups that expect to fully cycle every 12 hours seems like a feature that would not be utilized much at all and result in consistent performance problems for many server owners. It is uncharacteristic of a server owner to want to start backups at noon/prime time customer hours in my experience.
Again, I encourage further feedback/voting here to see if this is indeed a desired feature by cPanel & WHM server owners.
I'd like to get more community feedback on this. To me, I am honestly a bit surprised to see this as a feature request. It is often the case that, due to I/O bottlenecks, server owners traditionally end up dropping the daily backup in favor of an "every other day" or even slightly less frequent backup. The reason often being that backups server-wide for their particular server are unable to complete within a 24 hour window.
A request to allow backups that expect to fully cycle every 12 hours seems like a feature that would not be utilized much at all and result in consistent performance problems for many server owners. It is uncharacteristic of a server owner to want to start backups at noon/prime time customer hours in my experience.
Again, I encourage further feedback/voting here to see if this is indeed a desired feature by cPanel & WHM server owners.
I'd like to get more community feedback on this. To me, I am honestly a bit surprised to see this as a feature request. It is often the case that, due to I/O bottlenecks, server owners traditionally end up dropping the daily backup in favor of an "every other day" or even slightly less frequent backup. The reason often being that backups server-wide for their particular server are unable to complete within a 24 hour window.
A request to allow backups that expect to fully cycle every 12 hours seems like a feature that would not be utilized much at all and result in consistent performance problems for many server owners. It is uncharacteristic of a server owner to want to start backups at noon/prime time customer hours in my experience.
Again, I encourage further feedback/voting here to see if this is indeed a desired feature by cPanel & WHM server owners.
I'd like to see this feature - especially when SSD's become more normal.
I know my backups generally take 2-3 hours to complete. I need to look over my server though because it only transfer at less than 6 Mbit/s when transferring to another server.
I'd like to see this feature - especially when SSD's become more normal.
I know my backups generally take 2-3 hours to complete. I need to look over my server though because it only transfer at less than 6 Mbit/s when transferring to another server.
Yeah, I'd like to see this feature too. Often users do a lot of stuff during the day. So we can restore (if necessary) multiple backup-points a day.
Yeah, I'd like to see this feature too. Often users do a lot of stuff during the day. So we can restore (if necessary) multiple backup-points a day.
The current WHM Backup Configuration allows you to have multiple daily backups, perhaps this feature should be marked as completed?
The current WHM Backup Configuration allows you to have multiple daily backups, perhaps this feature should be marked as completed?
With different file names of the compressed file?
With different file names of the compressed file?
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