Best practices

[smallwebsolutions]

I had a bit of a scare this a.m. when my server was down for several hours and was inaccessible even by SSH, requiring help from the DC. At the time, H9 thought it might even be a failed hard drive.

My question is this: What is the best way to back up my server?

I currently have a script running via cPanel cron jobs for all of my clients which backs up their entire accounts to a remote server via FTP on a weekly basis. I've found this to be a God send a couple of times, when the backup copy that H9 had was much older than my weekly backups.

In WHM, there is a backup utility that would allow me to back up all of my clients accounts to a remote server via FTP using that utility. However, it won't allow me to backup the configuration files, which I am assuming are the configuration files for just the server (I don't know for sure).

Will using the WHM backup utility to a remote server be sufficient for backing up my server (since it will be just backing up accounts) or do I need to be doing something else to save the entire configuration of my server?

Thanks

[kobra]

However, it won't allow me to backup the configuration files

The following does grab the cnf files > but not a mirror image of the OS...
One would have to reinstall the OS then apply these cnf's to that(An Item that H9 would do)

whm > backup config > Backup Configuration Files (not needed for account restoration) > enable

[Brock]

You could also back up to a second hard drive (assuming you have the funds)

Having that second drive installed would be much faster, less proc intense, more secure etc...