Storing Your Backups with Amazon S3 via WHM

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1. I set this up and when I log into AWS there are tens of thousands of files in the bucket. I am unsure of how I would restore the site with these. So a couple questions. Is this method being used as a way to use an external storage for Inmotions backup solution –third party software or whatever it may be. Or is this a disaster recovery solution that can be restored outside of Inmotion? 

   1. It’s an external backup option. You can use this cPanel documentation to restore the backups. I also recommend you check out the Server Backups section in our backup options guide.

2. Ensure when you set up scheduled cPanel backups the option to “Retain backups in the default backup directory” is not selected.

   Thank you,
   John-Paul

3. Thank you for your tutorial. Now I can send my web server backup on my S3 account but how can I use it if one of my sites need to use its backup, please? How to “tell” to my Linux VPS (with WHM and cPanel) how to go on S3 and take the backup and reinstall it on this specific account, please?

    

   1. If I understand you correctly, it sounds like you’re interested in restoring a site from S3. This article merely describes an archiving process. If you want to restore one of those backups, you will need to download one from S3 and restore it manually, which our support team can help with. However, for an automated restoration process, you will want to seek out a third party system or contact a sysadmin or developer who can help you write one.

4. Soes the transfer of the backups to S3 come out of your allocation of monthly bandwidth allowance for the VPS?

   1. As a VPS owner, you don’t have a monthly allowance. You can use up to the full bandwidth available for your plan, however file transfer is not likely to use enough bandwidth to take away resources from other services.

5. Ok il will not bother about the legacy backup. Here is what I have now in the bottom part of the page once I have validated and got the message: Success: Backup configuration successfully saved.

   Destination: arn:aws:iam::854735260719:user/mf
   Transport: Amazon S3™
   System Backup: Disabled
   Status: Enabled
   Actions: Edit  Validate  Delete  Disable

   Just to make sure, the only thing that bothers me is why is System Backup disabled? is this normal? 

   thank you again for your great help and support, I really appreciate the constant support at inmotion for whatever thing we need.

   1. “System Backup” just refers to the system level files, and settings. This is optional, but if you wanted to move your accounts to a different server this would help with restoring the settings on your non-account system level changes.

   2. Thank you for these instructions, however, unless I missed it, they do not mention what to do for the “Backup SQL Databases” options. Can you please advise which option should be selected? Per Account Only (default)? Entire MySQL Directory? Per Account and Entire MySQL Directory? Thank you!

   3. Hello KG,
      Thank you for contacting us. The setting is really a preference and is up to you. The options are explained in depth on cPanel’s official Backup Configuration documentation.

      Thank you,
      John-Paul

6. Yes everything went fine. I got the following confirmation: Success: Backup configuration successfully saved in Amazon S3

   Now I have another message on top: The legacy backup system is currently disabled. Click here to manage the legacy backup system.

   Is it important to have this legacy backup also enabled?

   1. I believe that cPanel is planning to remove the legacy backup option in a future release. There is no need to enable it if you aren’t already using it.

7. All fine now. I could enter although I needed some help with

   https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/questions/general-information/i-cannot-login-as-root-to-my-vps

   to understand that root is the username to use. Thank you

   1. I’m glad to hear you were able to get access!

8. I logged in AMP, then clicked on WHM, next page asked for login details to cpanel, but then I do not see the Backup configuration interface in cpanel, there is only backup and backup wizard, both have nothing to do with what is described on this page. So where to find this backup configuration to store backups with amazon s3. Thank you!

   1. Jean-claude, you are logging into cPanel, and not WHM. Also, you will need to login with root access to your WHM.

9. Is there any solutions for low disk space? while uploading to AWS

   1. To save on disk space, make sure you have enabled the “Compressed” option, deactivate the “Backup System Files”, consider backing up fewer users, decrease or remove retention options, disable the “Retain backups in the default backup directory” option, etc.

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