The Backup System Migration interface serves the purpose of automatically converting and migrating the Legacy Backup system files to the current Backup system. The same features are offered by the Backup system as the Legacy Backup system. Efficiency and performance of your system are increased by the Backup system. The information provided here is valid for versions 82 through the latest versions.
The Backup System Migration interface has been implemented in cPanel & WHM version 64. The Legacy Backup Configuration interface is planned to be removed from WHM in a future release. The Backup System Migration interface appears only in the situation when there are backups under the legacy backup configuration. The following actions are strongly recommended in this regard:
You should set up and use only the Backup Configuration interface for configuring your server backups.
WHM >> Home >> Backup >> Backup Configuration
Once you are through with the above step, you need to use the Backup System Migration interface, for migrating the legacy backups that exist, to the Backup system.
Before we proceed, let us talk about WHM briefly. WHM is the abbreviation for Web Host Manager. It refers to a control dashboard, which enables the user to manage multiple sites that are cPanel-based. It is a powerful program that provides administrative access to cPanel’s backend. These websites are hosted on the servers of some web hosting company or the other. For every website to be accessible over the Internet, it is essential that its content gets stored on, and delivered from, the web server of some web hosting service provider. This is attained through the service of web hosting, which is provided by web hosts. Web hosting can be of various types such as shared, dedicated, reseller, VPS, cloud, WordPress, etc. Terms such as “Top Cloud Hosting”, the “Best Linux Shared Hosting”, the “Best Windows Dedicated Hosting”, etc. refer to the best services available with regard to the different types of hosting services. Every website needs to avail the service of web hosting in order to be accessible, and a web hosting control panel for managing the site.
Now let us go back to our main topic that has to do with backups.
Backup Configuration
So, what is “Backup Configuration”? It is an interface, which enables system administrators to customize their scheduled backups. The current Backup Configuration settings are applied by the system to accounts that are created or transferred. You need to use the Backup Settings tab in order to enable as well as set up your backup configuration.
Some Important Points
It is strongly recommended that backups get saved by you to a remote Additional Destinations location.
Separate queues are used by the backup process and the transfer process. If the backups get completed faster than the transfers, then backup files can get accumulated on the server, which can fill the hard drive.
It is strictly advised to not perform backups to remote filesystems, such as CIFS, smbfs, NFS, or other types of network drive systems. You can back up directly to a remote filesystem but this configuration isn’t supported by cPanel & WHM. It is recommended that you take the aid of a qualified system administrator for managing this custom backup path, to avoid potential risks.
The use of unique filepaths is strongly recommended when multiple server backups are stored in a shared filesystem. This helps to prevent backup file conflicts.
Quotas are automatically disabled on non-root filesystems, which have a backup destination. This is done by the system to prevent performance degradation.
Backup System Conversion
Let us now run you through the process of backup system conversion. You need to click Migrate in order to convert as well as migrate your Legacy Backup system files to the Backup system.
The below-mentioned actions are performed by the system, when you click Migrate.
The new /var/cpanel/backups/config file for the Backup system gets created by the conversion and migration process.
The Legacy Backup configuration file is renamed by the system after it converts the Legacy Backup system files to the Backup system files.
The filename format /etc/cpbackup.conf-1234567891234 is resembled by the new Legacy Backup configuration. In it, the value 1234567891234, represents the number of seconds in Unix epoch time.
Let us touch upon some important points before we conclude.
Only one retention point is allowed to be retained for incremental backups by the Legacy Backup system.
Multiple retention points for incremental backups are granted by the Backup system.
You need to update your retention point value in the Backup Configuration interface, after you migrate to the Backup system, or you run the risk of losing your existing backup. WHM >> Home >> Backup >> Backup Configuration.
The retention point value can be set in the Retention box under the Scheduling and Retention section in the Backup Configuration interface in WHM. WHM >> Home >> Backup >> Backup Configuration.
If you want to use the maximum number of retention points, then you need to set the value of your retention point to 9999.
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