Example of How to Do Daily Backup of Sites

[Rad1]

I am a newbie and sorry if this is dumb but:

How do I create daily back ups for each domain/add-on domain?
And then rotate them out each week or every few days or something?

I am a total newbie and I think crontab has something to do with this, but i have NO CLUE of HOW to do it. I seriously need a step by step guide.

One page tells me how to do a one-time BIG back up of everything all together Manually, but I could not find an example of an automatic daily back up of all my sites (small as they may be). I'd like something like back up daily, rotate/clean them out every three days or something along those lines. Is that possible or is there something that's considered standard or better as a back up strategy?

So, please, if someone can tell me HOW to do this or where I can find the step by step details, (not the link to the generic cron tab overview--that did not tell me anything useful) -- I need step by step explicit specifics, preferably with visual examples. Really, I'm just not that tech-knowledgeable and need that level of concrete help if I am going to learn how to do this.

Thanks for your assistance!

[Sam]

There's no way to do an automatic fullbackup and then rotate them.

[gtgeorge]

Originally Posted by Sam

There's no way to do an automatic fullbackup and then rotate them.

Sure there is, you can move to our server and download your daily, weekly and monthly backups at will from your CP. the backups are already automated

[Sam]

Originally Posted by gtgeorge

Sure there is, you can move to our server and download your daily, weekly and monthly backups at will from your CP. the backups are already automated

Have you got a custom cPPlugin that does that?

[gtgeorge]

Nope, enabled within WHM and a secondary backup drive. When our customers go to the backup icon they have buttons at the top that allow backups to be downloaded.

If you need more info, let me know and I will find the setting.

EDIT: Image added

[Sam]

Originally Posted by gtgeorge

Nope, enabled within WHM and a secondary backup drive. When our customers go to the backup icon they have buttons at the top that allow backups to be downloaded.

If you need more info, let me know and I will find the setting.

EDIT: Image added

Oh cool, i wonder if i can get that to work if the backups are sent to a remote server

[gtgeorge]

I was wondering that too as we may not always use the 2nd drive for all backup retention.

[Serra]

Originally Posted by gtgeorge

I was wondering that too as we may not always use the 2nd drive for all backup retention.

For dedicated people, look at BMU. It does the second drive/offsite thing really well.

[gtgeorge]

Originally Posted by Serra

For dedicated people, look at BMU. It does the second drive/offsite thing really well.

Yes, as we grow I am going to start using BMU also.

I posted an image earlier that showed how our customers have all our backups available for download in there cpanel under the backup tab.

Not sure how to be able to do that with the offsite backups.

[Serra]

Originally Posted by gtgeorge

Yes, as we grow I am going to start using BMU also.

I posted an image earlier that showed how our customers have all our backups available for download in there cpanel under the backup tab.

Not sure how to be able to do that with the offsite backups.

BMU does onsite and offsite as well (at the same time).

[GvilleRick]

Shameless plug or spam....hmm. Noting like digging up old threads to post multiple spam messages.

[escoles]

Originally Posted by gtgeorge

Nope, enabled within WHM and a secondary backup drive. When our customers go to the backup icon they have buttons at the top that allow backups to be downloaded.

If you need more info, let me know and I will find the setting.

EDIT: Image added

When you say "move to our server", do you mean the dedicated server hosting package?