What is Site backup?
If you choose a Site backup, all sites hosted on your account and users of that site will be backed up.
The Site backup includes:
All the sites hosted on your account
All the users accounts associated with the site
When you back up a site, WEBppliance creates:
A compressed file, in tgz format, separately for each site
A compressed file, in tgz format, separately for each user of the site
Note: When you restore from a backup, each compressed tgz file is listed, allowing you to selectively restore from a backup. For example, you can restore a particular site and its users to the exclusion of other backup files. The naming convention of a backup file is as follows: <webppliance_hostname>_<site_name>_<YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes>.tar.gz Where: <webppliance_hostname> is the name of the WEBppliance server <site_name> is the name of the site being backed up <YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes> is the time-stamp when the backup was taken. For example, backing up a site mysite.com on the WEBppliance server mywebppliance.com on Jan 06, 2003 at 11.30 would result in the following backup file: mywebppliance.com_mysite.com_2003_January_06_11_30.tar.gz
Important: DO NOT manually uncompress the tgz file in the archive to make changes and upload them again as a compressed tgz. If the files in the archive have been manually modified, you will be unable to restore files from the archive again. This is a security measure implemented to ensure that the archived files are not corrupted by malicious scripts.
/home/virtual/<site id> This directory contains the site configuration information.
/home/virtual/<site name> This directory contains all the files within the site owned either by the Site Administrator or the Appliance Administrator
/var/lib/mysql This directory contains all the MySQL databases for the site.
/var/named/*.* This directory contains files specific to the site.
/home/virtual/site<n>/info/custom/*.* This directory contains customizations local to the site; these will only be restored when the site is restored via the Appliance Administrator or the Reseller Administrator
Important: You will lose bandwidth usage log reports of a site if:
You delete a site from the server and then restore this site onto the same server
You restore the site onto a WEBppliance server different from the server used to back up the site
Files pertaining to users of the site are backed up.
Data from the /home/<user name> directory of the particular site is backed up and includes:
User configuration information
Files in the site owned by the user