This setting uses more disk space, but is faster than Compressed backups. Incremental - Select this setting to store only one uncompressed backup file. The system saves updated account information to the existing backup file, and remove the old information that these updates replace.
This setting limits your restoration settings, but runs faster and uses less disk space than other backup types. An important note for Incremental backup: If you choose to use Incremental backups, you cannot restore the account to a time before your last backup.
Decide on a backup and retention schedule: Backup Daily - Your system creates a new backup on each of the days of the week that you select. When you select this setting, you must also configure the following settings: Select the days of the week on which you wish to run backups. In the Retain Daily backups text box, enter the maximum number of daily backup files to store on your system at any given time. Backup Weekly - Your system creates a new backup once each week, on the day that you select.
In the Retain Weekly backups text box, enter the maximum number of weekly backups to store on your system at any given time. Backup Monthly - Your system creates a new backup either once or twice per week, on the days of the month that you select. When you select this setting, you must also configure the following settings: Select the day or days of the month on which you wish to run backups. In the Retain Monthly backups text box, enter the maximum number of monthly backups to store on your system at any given time.
This will work on any host that you can SSH into, as long as rsync is installed at both ends:. This will succeed if you have permission to write to this directory and there is available space.
For more information about how to use rsync to backup , click here. To automate backups, you would need to script those utilities and write any code necessary for rotation and other niceties. Bacula is a complex, flexible solution that leverages the client server model to backup hosts.
Bacula separates the ideas of clients, backup locations, and directors the component that orchestrates the actual backup. This allows for extremely granular and flexible configuration.
You can backup multiple clients to one storage device, one client to multiple storage devices, and modify the backup scheme quickly and easily by adding nodes or adjusting their details. It functions well over a networked environment and is expandable and modular, making it great for backing up a site or application spread across multiple machines. To learn more about how to configure a Bacula backup server and how to back up remote systems with Bacula , visit these links.
Another popular solution is BackupPC. BackupPC can be used to back up Linux and Windows systems easily. It is installed onto a machine or VPS that will act as the backup server. This setup offers the advantage of installing all of the relevant packages on one centralized machine.
The only necessity client-side configuration is to allow the backup server SSH access. This would allow you to configure the backups from the backup server easily and deploy your production environments cleanly, without additional software. To learn how to install and use BackupPC on a server , click here. Duplicity is another great alternative to traditional tools. This has some remarkable advantages. The obvious benefit of using GPG encryption for file backups is that the data is not stored in plain text.
Only the owner of the GPG key can decrypt the data. This provides some level of security to offset the ballooning of security measures needed when your data is stored in multiple locations. The other benefit that may not be immediately apparent to those who do not use GPG regularly is that each transaction is verified to be completely accurate.
GPG enforces strict hash checking to ensure that there was no data loss during the transfer. This means that when the time comes to restore data from a backup, you will be significantly less likely to run into problems of file corruption. To learn how to enable GPG encrypted backups with Duplicity , follow this link.
A slightly less common, but important alternative to file-level backups are block-level backups. Block-level backups allow you to copy on a deeper level than a file. Another way of explaining the same concept is to say that block-level backups copy information bit after bit. They do not care about the abstract files that may be represented by those bytes but the files will be transfered intact through the process.
One advantage of the block-level backups is that they are typically faster. While file-based backups usually initiate a new transfer for each separate file, a block-based backup will transfer blocks, which are typically larger, meaning that fewer transfers need to be initiated to complete the copying. Access your community space. Ask questions, search for information, post content, and interact with other OVHcloud Community members.
Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn. Please note that the automated backups will not include your additional disks. Did you find this guide useful? Yes No. Thank you. Your feedback has been received. VPS Configuring an additional disk. Most viewed tutorials. IP Management. Customer data protection. Instance management. Full backups are typically taken daily and backup the entire data on the server.
Although you can restore single files or folders, they are mainly intended for full server recovery or restore operations. Advantage: All of the data on the server is backed up and is stored in one place.
Incremental backups update changes to the files and system into the backup. Since the size of each operation is smaller, you can schedule it to execute more regularly.
Drawback: There are multiple restore points; therefore, when you need a larger recovery or restoration operation, the information you need may be spread across several restore points.
First, you need to make sure you have enough space for your backup and for the backing up operation. For example, if you want to backup VPS to local storage, you need to make sure that you will be left enough space for your machine to continue working smoothly. If you want to compress the backup so that it takes less space, you will need enough space for the uncompressed copy as well as the compressed backup. When configuring and choosing the type of backup you want to make, your entire server is backed up by default, but if you choose the incremental method, every time it will only back up the files and folders that have changed since last time.
Therefore, for restoring your entire data or server you may need to go through several restore points in the backup. Here we will show a step-by-step guide for how to back up a dedicated server or back up VPS to a local backup file, in WHM. Log into WHM as the root user. Then click on the Backup Configuration in the sidebar menu option. Then checkmark the Enable Backups checkbox if it is not checked. This way, when you have stored these configurations, the next time the backup process is run, the data will be backed up in the way you have specified.
Next, you can choose if you need cPanel to check the available disk space before attempting to back up. This will make sure that your backup system does not accidentally take all the available disk space. The next stage is where you can set the timeout limit for successfully backing up the data. It is entered in seconds. The next stage is for the event when you actually are trying to restore files from backup to your main system.
You can set a restoration timeout limit in seconds before cPanel gives up on restoring a single file and continues to the next file. Now, this is important. Here you can select days of the week when the daily backup process will be run. Finally, you can select how many backups on each backup-day should the cPanel make and their Retention.
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