ispconfig backup cron

[poisen]

Hello everybody,

I got a short question. I am running ISPConfig on my Server, now I want a backup generated every day of all the web, user and mysql data on the server, just like you can generate it by using tools - backup manager - backup in the ispconfig config menu. How can I do that?

What I know is that the backup is saved as a *.zip flle, which is okay for me. I just want to be able to backup all that and be able to save it to another location on the server.

I'd be thankful for some help.

Eddie

[till]

I got a short question. I am running ISPConfig on my Server, now I want a backup generated every day of all the web, user and mysql data on the server, just like you can generate it by using tools - backup manager - backup in the ispconfig config menu. How can I do that?

You can not do it with this tool as it requires that you are logged into the interface.

For such a automatic backup, you will either have to use the cron backup function which can be activated in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/lib/config.inc.php, this function creates a backup of every site in the "backup" directory of the site every night. Or you will have to write your own backup script.

[poisen]

Hi Till,

is it possible to import the backup file, that is saved in the backup directory of each website, in ispconfig again?

[till]

That is just a .zip file, you sould be able to unpack it with every zip program on linux and windows.

[poisen]

Originally Posted by till

That is just a .zip file, you sould be able to unpack it with every zip program on linux and windows.

okay, now how about this. I have another server running ISPConfig, same version, same setup. The reason why I am asking is in case one of those 2 servers should die, I want to have all the data and websites running as soon as possible on the second server, that's why I had the question about the backup.

Do you have any idea how I can handle this the best? I don't want to setup all the ISPConfig Customers and Webs again on the second server and then upload every single website and database stuff, because that takes forever. So I thought there might be a possibility to create a backup of all the files on one server, save these to a archive and afterwards just unzip this archive and place it on the second server, but that probably doesn't work that way.

[guardian]

Look at this post:
http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/sho...88&postcount=2

[poisen]

Originally Posted by guardian

Look at this post:
http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/sho...88&postcount=2

Thanks for that first of all, but I need to make a backup while the system is running and there is no possibility to stop postfix and apache and all that during any time of the day.

[till]

You dont have to stop apache and postfix, it is just more secure to stop them.