Best way to do a VPS Backup (Ubuntu)

[Me.B]

DNS resolution is different!

You will need to update dns records manually or hack the DB to update all the fields.

Your question was over apache binding and I replied apache is OK.

My advice as you want to change ip's, that means if your sentora as dns server, DNS server own ip will change and that will bring a lot of issues. Better you use cloudfare or registrar DNS.

M B

[apinto]

For reference here is what I'm backing up currently.

First I do a tar.gz of some folders to a backup folder located inside the /home/bkpusr/ user directory:

Code:

tar -czPf /home/bkpusr/backups/etc_apache2.tar.gz /etc/apache2
tar -czPf /home/bkpusr/backups/etc_bind.tar.gz /etc/bind
tar -czPf /home/bkpusr/backups/etc_dovecot.tar.gz /etc/dovecot
tar -czPf /home/bkpusr/backups/etc_mysql.tar.gz /etc/mysql
tar -czPf /home/bkpusr/backups/etc_postfix.tar.gz /etc/postfix
tar -czPf /home/bkpusr/backups/etc_sentora.tar.gz /etc/sentora
tar -czPf /home/bkpusr/backups/etc_ssh.tar.gz /etc/ssh

tar -czPf /home/bkpusr/backups/lib_ufw.tar.gz /lib/ufw

tar -czPf /home/bkpusr/backups/root.tar.gz /home/bkpusr --exclude='/home/bkpusr/backups'
tar -czPf /home/bkpusr/backups/var_sentora.tar.gz /var/sentora

After this I rsync the /home/bkpusr/ directory to another server, keeping the version control on that server.
This is using SSH and a Task Scheduler (yes archaic I know, but works).


Do you have any tips to improve this?

[Me.B]

you need to add /var/spool/cron

Take care for email backups would be complicated & /etc/php.ini there is some files in /etc always ;-).

M B

[apinto]

Thank you for the /var/spool/cron & /etc/php.ini tips!
What you mean with "there is some files in /etc always? (sorry for not understanding it).

About the emails, I just want to backup them because in a critical failure were no recovery is possible I would still have the emails that might be important to clients. Is this still a bad idea?

Thank you

[Me.B]

some conf files are in /etc like php.ini like my.cnf (mysql too)

[apinto]

I'll look into it!

[xanaul]

apinto, would you consider releasing your scripts as a 'backup' module towards the project?
I would not mind testing it, and adding any modifications back into the codebase.

[apinto]

I can certainly add that to my side project list.
Let me get my head around how to develop a Sentora module.
Thanks.

[mason64]

I can certainly add that to my side project list.
Let me get my head around how to develop a Sentora module.
Thanks.

I would also be up for testing this on my server if you want some testers. 

Am not a massive linux user but i am happy to help out as much as possible.

Looking for a backup solutions for sentora as i only have 1 vds with it running at the moment and if that was to go down i would be in trouble with a few clients,.

Thanks
mason