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VestaCP Backup Manager

With the VestaCP Backup Manager you can easily manage all your Webserver backups created by the Vesta Server Control Panel

Introduction

VestaCP creates by default a daily backup on the Server with all eMails, databases, webfolders and domain configurations.

This Manager is based on a bash-script that you can run via a cronjob.

It downloads the backups from VestaCP to your local HDD and will delete older backups from the server automatically.

Getting started

In order to use this script you just need to set up a ssh-key on your backup machine (e.g. a Raspberry Pi, local pc) and configure a cronjob.

How to setup a ssh-key

If you did not already set up a ssh-key to access your server, you can find more information on the internet.

This is a simple tutorial.

How to setup a cronjob

Just login to your (local) backup machine and open a terminal.

1. Open the cronfile: sudo crontab -e

2. Configure a backup job: 0 3 * * * /path/to/vestacp-backup-manager.sh

3. Save and close the file.

The command above will run the script every day at 3:00 am.

Here you can find further information.

Settings

To get the script up and running, you just have to edit the settings in vestacp-backup-manager.sh:

server: the server adress (FQDN)

user: the ssh user to login on the server

backupuser: the VestaCP user whose backups are to be stored

server_path: the server path where the backups are saved from VestaCP

local_path: the local path where the backups should get downloaded to

backup_on_server_days: the amount of days the backups will remain on the server before they get deleted

amount_local_backups: the amount of backups that will be stored on the disk. If new backups are downloaded, the oldest will be deleted, so that only this amount of backups is stored on your local disk.

max_download_retries: the amount of maximum attempts to download a backup, if something gone wrong