WHM Auto Backup- file name remains the same

[pmatra]

Hi folks,

I have a VPS and have configured WHM to do an automatic backup of my primary account daily and sending it to my FTP Server. Everything works fine and it does the backups but the are called by my accounts 'username'.tar

That is ok, but when each backup is sent to my server it overwrites the previous day's backup because each one is generated with the same name. Is a way to change the name so it automatically adds the data of the backup to the name? Something that you would see when you do a cPanel Full account backup.


pete

[weserver]

+1 on that question. I really wondered about that myself. The idea though, is that daily IS daily, and you should perhaps add weekly and monthly backup's as well in the cpanel konfiguration settings.

I was thinking more in the direction of: maybe there's a way to have cpanel create the "daily", "weekly", "monthly" folders with a date added to the folder name ?

[quietFinn]

Here is a script from Configserver.com:

#!/usr/bin/perl
###############################################################################
# Written by Jonathan Michaelson (jonathan@waytotheweb.com)
# http://www.webumake.com
#
# Please feel free to use or modify this script. It would be nice to leave the
# above intact.
###############################################################################
# cPanel backup rotation script
# v1.2
#
# usage: /usr/bin/dowbackup.pl [Monday,Wednesday,Friday]

my %bconf;
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime;
my @days = ("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday");
my $today = $days[$wday];
$year = 2000 + ($year % 100);
$mon++;
$mon = sprintf("%02d",$mon);
$mday = sprintf("%02d",$mday);
my $date = "$year$mon$mday";
if ($ARGV[0] ne "") {
        foreach my $entry (split(/\,/,$ARGV[0])) {
                $doday{lc $entry} = 1;
        }
}

if (($ARGV[0] ne "") and ($doday{lc $today} != 1)) {
        print "Backup Rotate: Doesn't run on $today\n";
        exit;
}

open (IN, "</etc/cpbackup.conf");
my @lines = <IN>;
close (IN);
chomp @lines;

you can call that from:
/scripts/postcpbackup

[pmatra]

Ok cool script. I have no clue how the hell to use it...LOL I will figure it out though. I assume there are instructions on configserver.com

att: weserver- that sounds like a good idea if you your server is full of files. Makes a lot of sense.

Pete