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jtaylo78
07-13-2010, 09:34 AM
How does someone verify cpanel backups? Is it a manual process? My logs always show that it is successful, but I am not sure if I should trust that.
yavahost
07-13-2010, 01:03 PM
Why would it be unsuccessful? If you are able to download them, they should work just fine when put back up onto another cPanel server.
jtaylo78
07-13-2010, 01:15 PM
I would tend to agree, but after many years in IT and seeing "successful" backups not actually work, it is nice to verify backups from time to time. Plus I am new to cPanel so not fully comfortable yet.
yavahost
07-13-2010, 01:19 PM
cPanel is reputable and works well. I have run into problems with backups, as you stated, though. Do you have SSH access to the server because I believe there is some shell stuff you can do to check up on those backups?
jtaylo78
07-13-2010, 01:22 PM
I do believe I can get jailed SSH (hostgator). Any suggestions on the commands, sorry for my ignorance worked with windows and .net exclusively for many years and now using linux host.
yavahost
07-13-2010, 01:26 PM
My advice would be to get away from hostgator as soon as possible. I don't mean to sound spammy, but YavaHost (http://yavahost.com) is an option.

Maybe contact their support to see if it is working. (I also know how their support agents can be stupid)
jtaylo78
07-13-2010, 01:28 PM
I just started with them, they seem very responsive so far. I would just like to know that my backups are working for sure..:)
Chris
07-13-2010, 06:10 PM
Just check for the file's existence
yavahost
07-13-2010, 07:17 PM
I've found that cPanel will sometimes create the files but then they won't work, so that method doesn't work.
jtaylo78
07-15-2010, 12:56 PM
sounds like it is not too much of a concern, I will check with hostgator and see if they have suggestions.
Blue Cat Buxton
07-19-2010, 03:01 AM
sounds like it is not too much of a concern,

Until something goes wrong and you loose your site !

Being pesamistic, I always like to have a back up that I have ftp'd from the server, on my hard disk, and on a second back up disk away from my office. They may not be as uptodate as I would like but they have saved my bacon at least once
jtaylo78
07-20-2010, 08:58 AM
I am weird about backups, that is why I am a liitle concerned about the cpanel backups. I am working on another method of backups that I will do along side my cpanel backups.
httpEasy
08-25-2010, 06:15 AM
You might try rsync for backup.