Backing your site up

[jcmental]

Now that I have most of my sites up and running on my new VPS

Whats the deal with backing up your sites?
Do I need to back it up or do eukhost do it for us?
If we have to back our sites up do we back up from WHM, Virtuoso or each site via Cpanel?

And will this use up valuable server space?

Which leads me to another question.
When you take out a hosting plan that says 15GB is that s15BG of clear space or do you have to take off some GB's for the server software?

[Scott]

Hi,

The VPS support team take a weekly backup of the entire node including configuration files and all VPS data. These backups will not include any media file which may be stored on the virtual machine; flash files would be the only such data which would be included in the backups. Backing up media files would not be our responsibility.

You can set daily, weekly and monthly backup from WHM panel itself. It will set a cronjob on your vps to take backups. CPanel backups will have all website files, emails and databases. Backups created using cPanel will get stored on your vps itself and will use vps disk space. You can also create backup of whole vps from Virtuozzo control panel, which will be saved on main node and will not use disk space on the vps. You cannot download the backup created using Virtuozzo control panel.

Operating system files, control panel files and other software files are included in 15GB disk space of VPS plan.

[jcmental]

Thanks for the info, Very helpful
But:-

When you say meida files does that include image files?

Can you set a cronjob to back up using Virtuozzo? And if so what does it do about the last back up it took?

Same for Cpanel/WHM if I set a cronjob to back up say every sunday morning at 3am after 4 weeks my server would be full. Can it be configured to say delete the back up from the last week after it's made a back up for this week? If you see what I mean.

Also if it's backing up a site that has a backed up file already on the server. Will it add that back up to it's new back up? Making the new back up file twice as big?

[eUKShane]

Hello,

When you say media files does that include image files?

Media files include .mp3, .avi, .dat or any Audio-Video file. Sometimes customers upload Audio-Video movies or movie-clips. We can’t include such files in our backups. So we have added some extensions in our ignore list for backups. Image files are allowed in backups so no worries about it.

Can you set a cronjob to back up using Virtuozzo? And if so what does it do about the last back up it took?

You can take only one backup from Virtuozzo at a time, you have to delete previous backup and then only you will be able to take new one. Virtuozzo stores backup on the Hardware Node (Main server where your VPS is hosted). So, you don’t have to worry about your VPS disk space.

Same for Cpanel/WHM if I set a cronjob to back up say every sunday morning at 3am after 4 weeks my server would be full. Can it be configured to say delete the back up from the last week after it's made a back up for this week? If you see what I mean.

Yes, we can setup a cron on your VPS which will delete previous backups first and then it will run backup script.

Also if it's backing up a site that has a backed up file already on the server. Will it add that back up to it's new back up? Making the new back up file twice as big?

You have to specify a folder from “WHM > Backup > Configure Backup” where you want to store all backups and if we will setup cron which will delete previous backups from that folder and then run a backup script, then it will not backup twice for that particular user. This will be easy if you will keep all your manual and automated backups in one folder.