While testing the backup facility of virtualmin I came to some strange results. I’ve done two immediate backups of one virtual server (home directory only). Backup format is “Single archive file” and Backup level is “Full”.
Once I downloaded the file to my computer which results in a 21kB corrupt .tgz file.
Once I used the option “Local file or directory” as backup destination. Result is a 150kB(!) file (size of home directory is 111kB) of unknown format. It works to restore the directory from that file but what if I have to restore only one specific file?
I may be wrong but i think it is because alias domains in virtualmin can be set up to be more than just an alias. When it holds its own configuration, it would also need a separate backup
or
an alias is just seen as a domain in namebased hosting