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| Posted by sentryhosting, 10-25-2009, 05:15 AM |
| Hello,
In WHM I set my backups to go to the / directory in a flder called backup. This filled up rather quick and that partiton is now full!
I was going to change the location to /home as i have over 400GB of space here but it says: Setting this to /home is a very bad idea.)
Why is this?
Thanks
Chris
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| Posted by rwxguru, 10-25-2009, 05:42 AM |
| this will cause load to go haywire to backup to the drive/partition with the highest IO and maybe cpanel backup program goes in an endless loop this way just a thought am not sure about this.
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| Posted by nitaish, 10-25-2009, 10:28 AM |
| Can you tell us here what is the backup policy you have set in WHM?
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| Posted by TheServerExperts, 10-25-2009, 11:21 AM |
| Why don't you get an remote backup solution? like remote ftp backup or rsync, etc.
I don't recommend doing backup's inside /home
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| Posted by eth00, 10-25-2009, 12:25 PM |
| Just remember one purpose of backups is disaster recovery. If you put the backups on the same drive as the main files you lose that capability for most problems. You still have the files but eh, only so useful.
What exactly are you trying to gain from backups?
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| Posted by sentryhosting, 10-25-2009, 12:28 PM |
| I wish to provide backups as an extra service to my customers (should the worst happen) I think its best to provide this by using an offsite backup facility.
Any recommendations?
Thanks
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| Posted by eth00, 10-25-2009, 12:30 PM |
| bqbackup has been around for awhile and they seem to be reliable / reasonably priced.
I don't know if you want to only have remote backups or if you are going to be doing both remote and local but do remember restoring remote backups can take awhile. If you do have the disk space I would keep using home (assuming your server load can take it) and also the remote backups.
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| Posted by sentryhosting, 10-25-2009, 12:35 PM |
| Could I add an extra drive and have all backups go there?
Would this cause much downtime if at all?
Chris
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| Posted by eth00, 10-25-2009, 12:48 PM |
| Yes you should be able to, ask your datacenter. The downtime depends on how fast they are and the exact model chassis they use for your server. They will know about how long it should take.
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