Cpanel Backups

[kaseytraeger]

When using cPanel to create backups of your site, what's the difference between:

"Generate/Download a Full Backup"

and

"Download a home directory backup"?

[TCH-Don]

The

Download a home directory backup

does not contain databases, e-mail filters and alias.

 

But it has everything else,

and there is a corresponding place to upload your backup.

So with the other links below it, you can backup everything

I have not figured out what to do with the whole backup yet.

 

But I did make the backups:

Download a home directory backup, databases, e-mail filters and alias

 

then terminated the account,

recreated it, and restored everything back with the above backups.

[kaseytraeger]

So if the only database I currently have is part of my MovableType installation, then I guess I don't need to worry about backing up databases (at this time).

 

Is there a way to set up cron to do a home directory backup nightly and store it back in my web space? I do this with my MT databases with the following command:

>mysqldump -u mycpanelname_mtdbusername -pmypassword mycpanelname_mtdbname | gzip -c > /home/cpanelname/backups/backup-mt-doggydiaries.sql.gz

It backs up my Movable Type database and overwrites/stores the new backup on top of the old backup.

[Zeitgeist]

I've tried using this syntax and I get an email with a 1045 (password error)... any thoughts?

[LisaJill]

Make sure you have no space between the -p and password, and that you are using the correct username/databasename. Those will be cpanelname_username and cpanename_databasename.

 

If you have still having problems you can pm me the exact line you put and I'll try to help you with it. =)