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 Moving sites from a slave drive |
 Mar 1 2007, 10:48 AM
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I have a server with ev1 (now planet) and decided to give up on that old junk and get a new one. The support has agreed to take the old hard drive and slave it on the new one. I have cpanel, with around 40 sites, at least 5 of them 5GB+, 2 of them 10GB +.
Has anyone done this using a slave drive? I am confused as the cpanel will not be available on the slave, right? Its easy to move the physical files between primary and slave, but how do I move the site info and the databases (they are huge). Any help is greately appriciated. |
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Mar 1 2007, 12:56 PM
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 My life is The Planet  Group: Members Posts: 7,923 Joined: 24-July 03 From: The big D Member No.: 37,965 |
cPanel's backup features can write backups to your slave drive. Once your drive is in the new system use the restore functions and you should be good. It won't hurt though to take your own backups and store them offsite in case the worst happens. A gzipped mysqldump of your databases along with an archive of your /home filesystem is generally what you need.
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Mar 1 2007, 01:21 PM
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 SuperGeek Group: Members Posts: 2,194 Joined: 27-May 05 From: Louisiana Member No.: 43,096 |
I have a slave drive set to nightly backups and once a month I log into my clients cpanels and do a -> Generate/Download a Full Backup
It will backup the entire site, email accounts, email inboxes, databases, etc associated with those accounts automatically. You would not need to download the home directory and sql, it does it all in 1 step. I opened 1 of the backup gzipped files to confirm it. -------------------- |
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Mar 10 2007, 03:09 AM
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 SuperGeek Group: Members Posts: 3,025 Joined: 8-July 06 From: Los Angeles, CA Member No.: 22,425 |
QUOTE (doc @ Mar 1 2007, 11:21 AM)  I have a slave drive set to nightly backups and once a month... Same here! My boxes FTP to a remote shared server.  It was perfect for when my tech deleted an account by accident.I opened up a ticket with the customer and by the time he read it, he was like "I don't think it actually got deleted. It's totally normal." 
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Mar 10 2007, 06:30 PM
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SuperGeek Group: Members Posts: 2,194 Joined: 27-May 05 From: Louisiana Member No.: 43,096 |
You configured cpanel for offsite backups once a month? I read in a few places that feature was messed up so I never played around with it.
PM me some details if it is possible if you don't mind Mark. 
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Mar 11 2007, 02:28 AM
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SuperGeek Group: Members Posts: 3,025 Joined: 8-July 06 From: Los Angeles, CA Member No.: 22,425 |
Not once a month - Every night!
You bet some months I use some major bandwidth.
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