Virtualmin and Webserver Backups

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What I really want is a mysqldump of each website (respectively) and all site files (respectively) put into a tarball in a directory on the same box. I would like it to be overwritten each day.

So, I would have

/backup/site106072019.tar
/backup/site206072019.tar

I would then pull from a FreeNAS box via rsync for daily, weekly, and monthly backups.

I would probably backup those up to S3 or something as well.

This way, if a client needs a backup from, say a week a week, ago. I can simply put clientsite05012019.tar into Dropbox or something and let them deal with it. Or, of course, I can upload/import that site myself.

  1. Is this a feasible way to back up sites? (Having 1 daily backup on the webserver and several others on your LAN/some other cloud storage)?

  2. Does Virtualmin support a per-site backup? Or do I have to write a script to do it?

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Howdy,

You can use the Backup and Restore menu on the bottom left of the navigation panel to setup backup schedules… it’s no problem to have Virtualmin generate backups that include a tar backup of your files, and a mysql dump of the database. That’s all part of the standard Virtualmin backup. By default that’s done on a per-domain basis.

You can also setup remote backup destinations, so if some days you want it at S3, or a remote SSH destination, you could always have Virtualmin upload it to your destination of choice.

-Eric