Changing backup location

[Hnaseri]

Hi,
I tried to change backup location of vestacp, to my external hard drive,
I followed this topic : viewtopic.php?t=3842
but now I get this error: Can't create tmp dir
please advise me to fix the problem
thanks

[Hnaseri]

btw I really think there should be a configuration option for backup, either visually implemented in VestaCP panel, or something that we could manually configure with shell access.
I think the following options would be great:
backup location,
number of backups (currently I see that there only three backups is stored in my server)
different backup scenarios (one database only backup each day, one backup for whole system each week, etc)

[mehargags]

why not create a cron job that "moves" backup set to your desired location. Much easier approach.!

[Hnaseri]

I prefer to use a more kind of direct approach.

[mehargags]

I prefer to use a more kind of direct approach.

unless you really know all the bash scripting and system control, I'd not try to be invasive and "direct" when I have a safer, faster, better way out. Plus the changes you do in VestaCP Scripts may not survive an upgrade asking for the whole exercise again.

The best way would be to "move" your backup sets via cron job... Will not take more than 2 mins to setup

[Mr.Erbutw]

Hi,
I tried to change backup location of vestacp, to my external hard drive,
I followed this topic :
but now I get this error: Can't create tmp dir
please advise me to fix the problem
thanks

why did you raise such an old topic ...
now everything is simple

only bug is not removed in Version: 0.9.8 sometimes the script is looking in /backup
With the release of a new version will fix it...

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ln -s /hdd/backup/drive /backup

hdd/backup/drive - specify the path where you will lay your backup

[Hnaseri]

now everything is simple

thank you very much. indeed it is simple. However, what about different scenarios for backup?
for example , I want a daily backup for databases , and a weekly backup for entire system.

[Mr.Erbutw]

now everything is simple

thank you very much. indeed it is simple. However, what about different scenarios for backup?
for example , I want a daily backup for databases , and a weekly backup for entire system.

Yes, you can add in exceptions.



if you do not want to do this backup

[Hnaseri]

Yes, you can add in exceptions.

I was aware of this. the problem is, there is only one backup cron.
I want something like two cronjobs, one for database that runs daily, and the other for the entire server that runs weekly.

[Mr.Erbutw]

You can create another cron value, and put it in /usr/local/vesta/bin/
That's the main value

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sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-backup-users 

can like this to create the same value, for example v-backup-users_1 and put it in to the main. and add in cron to run at specified time. Just remember that it needs fixing the parameter section "exclusions".