I want to utilize backup for clients that require restore. The server is a Dual Woodcrest series, with 4 146GB drives. The problem I am finding with how The Planet has the drives setup is

the following:

/dev/sda5 8254240 290200 7544748 4% /
/dev/sda1 124427 16909 101094 15% /boot
none 1037368 0 1037368 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda6 437028660 60875444 353953396 15% /home
/dev/sda7 1035660 41656 941396 5% /tmp
/dev/sda2 20641788 3354948 16238200 18% /usr
/dev/sda3 10317860 1473120 8320620 16% /var
/tmp 1035660 41656 941396 5% /var/tmp

Which leaves barely any space for a /backup directory. What do you recommend for this?

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If you have a spare drive available, you should format and use that drive as your destination for backups. Backups should never be stored on the same drive as the system, and ideally a copy of the backups should reside outside of the server and/or data center itself

You can configure backups in WHM > Backup > Configure Backup once you have your destination determined.

Well, for each one of my main client servers, I have a backup server. I host these at the place on the banner in my sig.

I just setup cpbackup for each server via FTP. Make sure to enable the gzip feature!

Maybe get a shared hosting package with lots of space and then have each server perform backup to it's own directory, eg:
/backups/server1/cpbackup
/backups/server2/cpbackup
/backups/server3/cpbackup

Good luck. PM me if you would like specifics on using remote servers for cpbackup.

Sure and this is what I typically do but this is a RAID1+0 setup and ThePlanet partitioned that RAID array in the format displayed above.

I have a backupserver for this as well but when you have individuals that want to restore from last nights backup it can be a pain to go and pull from the remote server each time which is why I prefer to have a local backup as well. This also allows me to perform remote backups weekly and reduce bandwidth overages.

Well, I see your point. I have to do the same thing but getting the backup is no pain for me: I just do a wget and untar it. That uses the speed of the data center networks, not my office network.

Does that work for you? Otherwise, to make them local, you'd have to have a server at your home/office.

? I am referring to locally on the server.

But didn't we determine it's a bad idea to store backups within the same harddrive as the accounts?!

Once again, we are talking about a RAID 1+0 setup. It doesn't matter. I have figured this out anyhow. Thanks.

lol I think mark mis-read some of your responses.

You have a raid, which means that you dont want the backups for fear of hard drive failure, but simply for convenience.

In that case, just make a directory called backups in your root partition, and configure your backup utility. There is no reason to put it on its own partition.

-James

Ugh. I'm a bit slowwwww sometimes.