What is Site backup?
A Site backup backs up the following data.
Site information
The site user accounts and service configuration information and related files are backed up.
Site user accounts
The back up includes the following information.
User configuration information
Files in the site owned by the user
A site backup is a complete backup that constitutes all the files integral to your site (site content, configuration information and user data). Since the site configuration information is also backed up, you have the functional independence to migrate your site between the control panel servers and successfully restore it whenever needed.
Note: To restore a backup onto a new server, you must contact your service provider and provide him with the necessary site backup details to restore the site.
Your service provider can also back up your site but cannot back up the site and user data separately.
When you back up a site, the following files are created.
A compressed file (.gz) of the site
A compressed file (.gz) for each user of the site
The naming convention of a backup file is as follows: <server_hostname>_<site_name>_<backup_type>_<YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes>.tar.gz Where: <server_hostname> is the name of the control panel server on which your site is hosted <site_name> is the name of the site being backed up <backup_type> indicates the type of backup (site) <YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes> is the time-stamp when the backup was taken. For example, backing up a site mysite.com on the server example.com on Jan 06, 2003 at 11.30 would result in the following backup file: example.com_mysite.com_site_2003_January_06_11_30.tar.gz
The following information is backed up as metadata.
DNS information
DNS information comprises the DNS settings configured for the zone along with zone information for the site.
Service configuration information
Service configuration information includes the service settings configured for a site when you create or modify a site.
File ownership and their permissions
Site information comprises the site name, IP address, site ownership information, services information, site databases and tables.
Site user account information
Site user account information includes the following.
The following files and directories are not backed up. Please ensure that you take adequate measures to insure the data from loss or corruption.
Note: All the path names are relative to the site's base directory, /home/virtual/<site-id>/fst/
Analog configuration information
/var/usage/web/analog.cfg
/var/usage/ftp/analog.cfg
Anonymous FTP account information
/var/ftp/etc/group
/var/ftp/etc/ld.so.cache
/var/ftp/etc/passwd
Skins and related customizations
/usr/lib/opcenter/skins/
IMAP authentication information
/etc/imap.pamlist
Security certificate information
/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/*.*
/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/*.*
/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.csr/*.*
proFTPd authentication information
/etc/proftpd.pamlist
Email account information
/etc/aliases.db
/etc/mail/mailertable.db
/etc/smtp_relay.pamlist
/etc/mail/mailertable.local_domains
/etc/domainname
/etc/group
/etc/hosts
/etc/ld.so.cache
/etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/passwd
/etc/pwdb.conf
/etc/shells
/etc/HOSTNAME
/etc/mail/domain-info.m4
SquirrelMail configuration file generated by Ensim
$HTML_ROOT/squirrelmail/config/ensim_config.php
SSH authentication information
/etc/ssh.pamlist
Telnet authentication information
/etc/telnet.pamlist
Bandwidth statistics
Scheduled backup settings
/etc/cron/*.*
Files not owned by group adminxyz (for example, admin123) or root