[Gary Spires]

Thanks for your help. I'd have no idea how to write/run scripts so I think I'll stick to back ups locally.

Gary

[fozl]

You'll need to create backup scripts that tar (or zip) the directories you need, and then shoot them over to the backup space over ftp. You'll need to work out for yourself what to backup and how often to do it. You should'nt have to backup literally the entire server though. On mine I exclude a whole bunch of stuff, as an example:

tar -zcvf server.tar.gz --exclude=/home/fozl/server.tar.gz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sys --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/dev --exclude=/media --exclude=/home/fozl/lolcats

Seems to work well enough.

You might also consider investing in a usb drive and just rsyncing your data to it, no need to concern yourself with network activity when the backup runs if you do that, you have your data nice and close and you get alot more space (500GB), and as you can use rsync (or just cp if you want) you don't need alot of working space held aside just to do the tar'ing iykwim. Does add to overall cost though.

http://www.ovh.co.uk/items/usb_disk.xml

[Gary Spires]

Guide on backing-up with the Free FTP facility here: http://help.ovh.co.uk/backupftp

So how would I use this to back up my entire server. I currently have 16 domains and would like to back up the whole server. Is there a way to automate this to weekly backups. Would the back include databases as well or do they have to be backed up seperatly.

Gary

[Gary Spires]

What do you recommend Cpanel?

I basically look after all the sites on my server, so customers dont see the panel. £25 per month is a lot. Plesk is a good free option or was until update 10.

Gary

[LawsHosting]

IMO, Plesk is awful.

[Gary Spires]

Thats fantastic, thanks for your help. I think a few more people might want to do this, V10 is awful.

Gary

[fozl]

Hi Gary, yes you can reinstall with Plesk 9 and have your 30 domains (assuming you're kit isn't a kimsufi).

Guide on backing-up with the Free FTP facility here: http://help.ovh.co.uk/backupftp

[Gary Spires]

I have a dedicated server and plesk installed. I have updated Plesk to the latest version 10 and its awful. I'd like to go back to version 9.

So if I do a reinstall on my server will V9 be back? Its the version OVH give with 30 domains. Will all the domains etc work ok. Is there an easier way to roll back?

Also i have the FTP back up service, how can I back up my server using it. Support tolt me to use a different FTP client, but what/how do I do it?

Gary