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ISPConfig Backups

Today I setup automated backups for all websites connected to the server. I had to do a little tweaking to the backup script to get it working correctly, but now that it is working it will back up the sites in full, including all html and PHP files, SQL data, user data and e-mails every morning at 2:05 AM. Currently all of the backups are saved on the server itself, but I would like to work on writing a script to upload the backups to a remote location on a weekly basis.

Restoring a site from a backup is a little tricky, but now my clients can feel free to make customizations and changes to their sites knowing that if anything goes wrong the previous versions can easily be restored. The server is already configured with a mirrored Raid 1 array so I don't expect to lose any data unless a major disaster occurs that would completely destroy the server. I also perform full server backups with CloneZilla on a weekly basis.