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A blog discussing common issues of Linux, cPanel/WHM, Plesk, DirectAdmin, InterWorx

Backup option is available in both cPanel and WHM. Backup option in cPanel can not be set to automatic backups and the user has to login and manually generate the backup. Backup feature in WHM allows scheduled backups but Resellers are not provided with that option. As backup is a must thing so I wrote a small bash script that will backup the databases and the accounts data for all the accounts under the mentioned reseller and transfer the backup to a backup server. This script requires that the backup server should allow scp or rsync and supports SSH Authentication Keys.This script doesn’t need any update if the reseller adds new accounts or any user creates new databases. Read the rest of this entry »