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How can I download a backup?
| Posted by never1, 11-30-2009, 08:33 AM |
| Hello,
I hosted my large web site/vBulletin in a dedicated server with Cpanel/Whm (size of my web site and database almost 40 GB)
My server (Cpanel/WHM) is Configured to creat Incremental Backup daliy,weekly and monthly ...
Is tere any way to download a backup to my local pc?
Than you
Aziz
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| Posted by madaboutlinux, 11-30-2009, 08:47 AM |
| Move the backup file to your /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ directory and set the permissions of it to 644.
assuming that the backups are stored in backup/cpbackup/daily/.
You will then be able to download the backup as
If the /usr partition do not have enough space, you can move the backup file under your account itself (/home/user/public_html directory) and download it using
Just an additional note: if you are having Apache 1.x, you may face problems downloading the file so upgrade Apache to 2.x in that case.
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BTW, If you are looking to directly download the backups on your local machine on daily basis, you will have to create a Ftp account on your machine and configure the backups via WHM to Ftp the backups to your machine as soon as they are created.
Last edited by madaboutlinux; 11-30-2009 at 08:50 AM.
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| Posted by ksv2nash, 11-30-2009, 08:49 AM |
| Hi,
You can download it from your local pc
http://yourdomain.com/file path on server
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| Posted by kdmitchell, 11-30-2009, 11:00 AM |
| Ok..... You are using Vbulletin, there's a huge issue here with Cpanel and Plesk. Make sure you make a manual database backup using mysql dump or phpmyadmin. I also run a huge vbulletin website (15,000 members) and I trusted Cpanel one day and I lost the entire db. Thank GOD I made a backup a few days prior on my own.
But what madaboutlinux said is correct. If you choose not to do that, but it's recommended as the files will keep their permissions, you can do a manual ftp download of the site.
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| Posted by e-Sensibility, 11-30-2009, 11:21 AM |
| I would highly recommend AGAINST downloading your files as described aboved -- if you put them in a publically accessible web-directory then anyone has access to them. Use SCP.
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| Posted by kdmitchell, 11-30-2009, 11:25 AM |
| You could put it behind a password protect directory? Also if they are moving the files to their local machine and are not using linux then they need to have SSH (SFTP) / WinSCP installed on their machine as well.
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| Posted by e-Sensibility, 11-30-2009, 12:27 PM |
| All of the information would still be traversing the internet unencrypted, even if the OP password protected the directory.
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| Posted by plumsauce, 11-30-2009, 02:35 PM |
| And no one would care.
Additionally, in order to carry out a MIM attack, an interested party would have to subvert/control one of the devices between the two end points.
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