Private Cloud Introduction

Private Cloud (VMware) offers our clients all of the features of a state of the art, multi-tenant VMware cloud environment in combination with Hivelocity’s managed services and infrastructure expertise. Leveraging Hivelocity’s expertise ensures that the your cloud environment is supported by cutting-edge technologies and adheres to industry best practices, guaranteeing optimal performance and reliability. The infrastructure is engineered to provide high performance, scalability, high availability (no single points of failure), and secure cloud services to our clients, ensuring efficient operations and robust data management.

The core of Private Cloud is powered by VMware’s industry leading virtualization platform as well as Pure Storage. VMware’s robust features provide our clients with flexible resource allocation, seamless migration, and efficient workload management. This ensures a highly responsive and adaptable infrastructure capable of meeting diverse tenant requirements. Pure Storage provides our clients with high-performance, low-latency storage solutions with several performance options based on their application requirements. The integration of Pure Storage ensures that Private Cloud delivers rapid data access and supports demanding workloads, contributing to an optimized and responsive user experience.

To offer flexibility when it comes to management, Hivelocity will be offering two options to our clients. Those options will be broken out into Advanced Managed and Base Managed based to meet each client’s requirements.

Advanced Managed (Multi-Tenant and Dedicated Hosts*)

For clients looking to offload many of the daily management tasks to an MSP, Hivelocity offers a 24x7x365 managed option that includes initial solutioning/design and infrastructure setup for VMware (compute and networking, infrastructure monitoring/alerting, as well as Hivelocity SRE support. This option relieves our clients of having to perform ongoing operational actions and frees them up to do what is important to them, focus on their business applications and running their business.  

 With the Advanced Managed option, clients are provided access to the Cloud Director console to allow visibility of their cloud environment as well as view the usage currently deployed resources. Clients will be provided remote console access to the VM(s) to install and manage their applications. As changes are needed in the cloud environment, clients will be able to simply contact Hivelocity Support via the normal ticketing process to have additional VM’s created, started, stopped, restarted, updated or deleted as well as request changes to the network access and connectivity to and from their VM(s).

Base Managed (Multi-Tenant and Dedicated Hosts*) 

For Clients who are looking for more of a hands-on solution, Hivelocity offers a self service option which allows them to provision and manage their resources within the Private Cloud platform. For this option, the Client retains the responsibility to provision and maintain full control their own VM(s) as well as maintain the patch levels of their operating systems, network configurations and alert remediation specific to their configuration. Hivelocity will be responsible for the initial setup of the account to ensure proper client access as well as the initial infrastructure monitoring setup and monitoring within the Private Cloud— Multitenant Cloud environment. Hivelocity will provide monitoring and remediation services for the infrastructure and will send non-infrastructure related alerts to the client for remediation purposes.

 Clients will have full access to the Cloud Director portal to perform management functions of their Private Cloud — Multitenant Cloud environment. Clients will have the ability to create, modify, start, stop and remove virtual servers, virtual CPUs (vCPU), virtual RAM (vRAM), network, and storage resources. Some advanced configuration requests may require that a ticked be submitted to Hivelocity support to assist with the deployment of the request.

Private Cloud Optional Add On Services:

Advanced Load Balancer

• VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly known as Avi Networks) uses a software-defined architecture that separates the central control plane (Avi Controller) from the distributed data plane (Avi Service Engines). NSX Advanced Load Balancer is 100% REST API based, making it fully automatable and seamless with the CI/CD pipeline for application delivery. With predictive autoscaling NSX Advanced Load Balancer can scale based on elastic application loads across multi-cloud environments, including bare metal servers, virtual machines, and containers.
• For security, NSX Advanced Load Balancer features an Intelligent Web Application Firewall (iWAF) that covers OWASP CRS protection, support for compliance regulations such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR, and signature-based detection. It deploys positive security model and application learning to prevent web application attacks. Additionally, built-in analytics provide actionable insights on performance, end-user interactions and security events in a single dashboard (Avi App Insights) with end-to-end visibility. For container-based microservices applications, NSX Advanced Load Balancer offers a container ingress that provides traffic management, service discovery, and application maps.

Advanced Patch Management

• Hivelocity will be providing operating system patching to all of the current vendor supported Operating System’s (as detailed here: https://help.automox.com/hc/en-us/articles/5352186282644-Supported-Operating-Systems) on a monthly basis as patches are released. Hivelocity will set up a new account in Automox and provide client access credentials. Once access is established Hivelocity will set up all client VMs that need to receive patching which requires a small agent to be installed on each OS which will require OS access. Once the agents are installed, Hivelocity will set up the initial patching schedule based on client requirements, provide console training, and handover Automox access to the client. Automox will notify our clients when patches are available to provide proper application testing (UAT) and will only deploy patches based on an agreed upon maintenance window as configured in the patching schedule. Clients will have access in the Automox portal to install Emergency/on-demand patches as needed. Any assistance needed can be requested by support ticket.  
• Automox Powered

Advanced Virtual Gateway Firewall

• VMware NSX Gateway Firewall is a software-only, layer 2-7 firewall that enables you to achieve consistent network security coverage and unified management for all of your workloads, regardless of whether they’re running on physical servers, in a private or public cloud environment or in containers. When deployed together with the NSX Distributed Firewall, the Gateway Firewall extends its capabilities to deliver consistent protection across the entirety of the infrastructure.
• VMware NSX Gateway Firewall is a software-only, layer 2-7 firewall that incorporates advanced threat prevention capabilities such as intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS), URL filtering and malware detection (using network sandboxing and other techniques) as well as routing and virtual private networking (VPN) functionality.
• When the NSX Gateway Firewall is deployed in conjunction with the NSX Distributed Firewall, it’s easy to extend consistent layer 2-7 security controls across all applications and workloads.

Advanced Virtual Distributed Firewall

• The VMware NSX Distributed Firewall is a software-defined Layer 7 firewall purpose-built to secure multi-cloud traffic across virtualized workloads. It provides stateful firewalling with IDS/IPS, sandboxing, and NTA/NDR— delivered as software and distributed to each host. With complete visibility into applications and flows, the NSX Distributed Firewall delivers superior security with policy automation that’s linked to the workload lifecycle. Unlike traditional firewalls that require network redesign and traffic hair-pinning, the NSX Distributed Firewall distributes the firewalling to each host, radically simplifying the security architecture. This allows security teams to easily segment the network, stop the lateral movement of attacks, and automate policy in a vastly simpler operational model.

Advanced Firewall with Advanced Threat Protection

• VMware’s NSX Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) provides network security capabilities that protect organizations against advanced threats. NSX ATP combines multiple detection technologies – Intrusion Detection/Prevention System (IDS/IPS), Network Sandboxing, and Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) – with aggregation, correlation, and context engines from Network Detection and Response (NDR). These capabilities complement each other to provide a cohesive defensive layer. As a result, ATP increases detection fidelity, reduces false positives, and accelerates remediation while decreasing security analysts’ manual work.
• IDS/IPS: This technology inspects all traffic that enters or leaves the network, detecting and preventing known threats from gaining access to the network, critical systems, and data. IDS/IPS looks for known malicious traffic patterns to hunt for attacks in the traffic flow. When it finds such attacks, it generates alerts for use by security analysts. Alerts are also logged for post-incident investigation.

• Network Sandbox: This is a secure isolation environment that detects malicious artifacts. It analyzes the behavior of objects, such as files and URLs, to determine if they are benign or malicious. Because it does not rely on signatures, the sandbox can detect novel and highly targeted malware that has never been seen before.

• NTA: This technology looks at network traffic and traffic flow records using machine learning (ML) algorithms and advanced statistical techniques to develop a baseline of everyday activities. NTA can identify protocol, traffic, and host anomalies as they appear. Of course, not all anomalies represent threats; that’s why VMware’s NTA implements additional ML and rule-based techniques to determine if the anomaly is malicious. This analysis pipeline keeps false positives to a minimum, reducing the security team’s work so the team can focus on real issues.

• NTA : Utilizes machine learning algorithms to develop a secure baseline of activities from network traffic, log files, and flow records and then alert to deviations from the secure baseline.
• NDR: NDR consists of aggregation, correlation, and context engines. The aggregation engine collects signals from individual detection technologies. It combines them to reach a verdict (malicious or benign) on network activities. The correlation engines combine multiple related alerts into an “intrusion campaign.” The context engines collect data from various sources (including sources outside NSX) to add helpful context to the information provided to security analysts.
• Advanced VPN
• Additional VPN tunnels
• Advanced Backup powered by Veeam. 
• Advanced DRaaS Powered by Zerto. 
• Microsoft SPLA and other 3^rd Party Licensing
• Advanced VMware Migration Services (vCDA). 
• Professional Services Migration (Via Partner, Complex Migrations

Cloud Storage Powered by Pure Storage

The Hivelocity Cloud 2.0 is built using best in class storage array from Pure Storage. Pure allows our clients to utilize various tiers of storage to ensure their applications have the performance they need depending on workload as well as more budget friendly options to ensure our client’s data retention policies are met.  

• Performance Tier 1 Storage
• Standard Tier 2 Storage
• Backup Tier 3 Storage

Performance Tier 1 Storage:

Experience unparalleled performance Hivelocity’s Performance Tier, designed to meet the demanding requirements of modern businesses. Our cutting-edge flash storage technology ensures lightning-fast access to your data, delivering the speed and responsiveness needed for critical applications. With ultra-low latency and high throughput, the Performance Tier empowers your organization to thrive in the era of real-time analytics and data-driven decision-making.

Key Features:

• NVMe Flash Technology: Leverage the power of Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) to unlock the full potential of flash storage, providing a quantum leap in speed and responsiveness.
•  Predictive Analytics: Proactively address potential issues with Pure1® predictive analytics, ensuring optimal performance and minimizing disruptions.
• Scalability: Seamlessly scale your storage infrastructure to accommodate growing data demands without sacrificing performance or worrying about procuring additional hardware as your storage requirements grow.

Standard Tier: Reliable and Cost-Efficient Storage Solutions

Hivelocity’s Standard Tier offers a robust and reliable storage solution that balances performance with cost-effectiveness. Ideal for a wide range of workloads, this tier provides a cost-efficient way to store and manage your data without compromising on quality or reliability. Whether you’re running business applications, virtualized environments, or databases, the Standard Tier delivers the reliability you need at a price point that makes sense for your budget.

Key Features:

• All-Flash Array: Benefit from the speed and efficiency of all-flash storage, ensuring consistent performance across diverse workloads.
• Data Reduction: Maximize storage efficiency with inline deduplication and compression, reducing your overall storage footprint and optimizing costs.
• Reliability: Rely on Pure Storage’s proven track record for high availability and data integrity, minimizing the risk of downtime or data loss.

Backup Tier: Safeguarding Your Data Assets

Ensure the resilience and security of your data with Pure Storage’s Backup Tier. This tier is specifically designed to address the critical need for data protection, providing robust backup and recovery capabilities. With comprehensive features such as snapshot technology, data replication, and integration with leading backup solutions, the Backup Tier offers a solid foundation for building a reliable data protection strategy.

Key Features:

• Snapshots and Replication: Create point-in-time snapshots for rapid data recovery and replicate data across geographically dispersed locations to ensure business continuity.
• Integration with Backup Solutions: Seamlessly integrate with leading backup solutions, streamlining your backup and recovery processes.
• Compliance and Security: Adhere to regulatory requirements and enhance data security with encryption, access controls, and audit trails.

Data Protection Services Powered by Veeam

Safeguard your VMware virtualized infrastructure with Hivelocity’s Data Protection service (Powered by Veeam) designed to address the unique challenges of VMware environments. Veeam Backup for VMware combines powerful features with seamless integration, providing comprehensive data protection tailored specifically for VMware-based workloads. Elevate your virtualization strategy with Veeam’s advanced backup options and ensure the availability, reliability, and recoverability of your critical data.

Service Offerings

• Veeam Backup & Replication for VMware: Veeam’s flagship solution, Backup & Replication, offers specialized capabilities for VMware environments, providing seamless backup, replication, and recovery processes. Ensure the protection of your virtual machines (VMs) with a solution optimized for VMware’s unique architecture.
• Veeam Explorer for VMware: Gain granular visibility into your VMware backups with Veeam Explorer, allowing for efficient recovery of individual items, such as files or application objects, directly from the backup.
• VMware vSphere Integration: Benefit from tight integration with VMware vSphere, leveraging Veeam’s capabilities to enhance your vSphere environment’s data protection and recovery.

Key Backup Options

• Image-Based VM Backups: Veeam’s image-based backup approach captures entire VM images, ensuring comprehensive protection and enabling efficient recovery of entire VMs.
• Incremental Backups with Advanced Deduplication: Minimize backup storage requirements and optimize performance with Veeam’s advanced deduplication technology, capturing only changed data since the last backup.
• Instant VM Recovery: Reduce downtime with Veeam’s instant VM recovery, allowing you to restart failed VMs directly from a backup file in minutes.
• Application-Aware Processing: Ensure consistent and reliable backups of applications running in VMs with Veeam’s application-aware processing, supporting applications like Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and Active Directory.
• VeeamZIP for Quick Ad-Hoc Backups: Perform ad-hoc backups of VMs with VeeamZIP, providing a quick and easy way to create point-in-time backups for testing, development, or archival purposes.
• SureBackup Verification: Validate the recoverability of your backups with Veeam’s SureBackup, automatically verifying the integrity of VM backups and ensuring they can be successfully recovered.

Secure your VMware virtualized environment with confidence, leveraging Veeam’s tailored backup solutions. Whether you’re dealing with data loss, system failures, or simply need to ensure compliance, Veeam Backup for VMware environments delivers the reliability and flexibility your organization requires for efficient data protection.

Getting Started

How to:

Virtual Machines:

• Create a Virtual Machine
• Create a Virtual Machine Using an ISO
• Create a Virtual Machine Using a template
• Viewing Virtual Machines
• Editing Virtual Machine Properties
• Performing Power Operations on Virtual Machines
• Working with Snapshots
• Monitoring Virtual Machines
• Converting a stand alone Virtual Machine into a vApp
• Deleting a Virtual Machine
• Creating Auto Scale Groups

vApps

• Create a vApp 
• Viewing vApps
• Creating a vApp from an OVF Package
• Adding a vApp from a Catalog
• Creating a vApp from an vApp Template
• Performing Power Operations on vApps
• Working with Snapshots in vApps
• Editing vApp Properties
• vApp Networking
• Saving a vApp as a Template
• Downloading a vApp as an OVA
• Renewing a vApp Lease
• Deleting a vApp
• Converting a Single VM vApp into a stand alone Virtual Machine
• Copying a stopped vApp to another Virtual Data Center (VDC)
• Copying a Powered-On vApp
• Adding a Virtual Machine to a vApp
• Changing the owner of a vApp
• Moving a vApp to another Virtual Data Center (VDC)
• Sharing a vApp
• Displaying a vApp Network Diagram
• Configuring Network Services for a vApp Network
• Fencing a vApp Network
• Viewing and Editing General Network Details
• Adding a Network to a vApp
• Adding Static Routing for a vApp Network
• Adding a Port Forwarding Rule to a vApp Network

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Registering a New Windows Machine

To register your new backup server, just follow these 10 easy steps:

1. Using the device you are registering, log into: https://us-cloud.acronis.com/login with your username and password.
2. Select All Devices and click Add at the top of the page.

   

3. Select Windows under either Servers or Workstations as appropriate for your device. This will prompt you to download the client installer.

   

4. Run the installer. When this is complete you will be prompted to register the device. Click Confirm Registration to be directed to the backup portal.

   

5. Select Register again from within the backup portal.
6. On your newly registered device, click the option to Enable Backup.

   

7. Choose what you’d like to backup and set the retention and encryption as needed.

   

8. If applicable, application specific options for an MSSQL, Exchange, or Active directory server are available as well.
9. Once you’ve selected the appropriate options for your server, click the Create button.
10. To run a backup on your new server immediately, click the Run Now button.

    

And there you have it! Your backup server is up and running and you can rest easy knowing your data is safely stored away.

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How to Use the RSYNC Command to move files and folders from server to The Storage Cloud

The RSYNC Command is used in a Shell to move files/folders from server to server over the internet. The RSYNC Command can come in useful when you are just needing to back up to a Cloud Storage Device from your server or even transferring to a new server. The following tutorial will explain the steps you need to take to help move your important information into a cloud storage device.

First off you want to start a new SSH Terminal that is connected to your server.

Now that we are in our server we can create a package which contains the files/folders needing to be backed up:

2) In this case, we have a Folder called “backup” in the root directory of the server which has files Test1.txt, Test2.txt, Test3.txt, and a subdirectory called “data” that will need to be archived

CODE: tar -zcvf backup-4-2-2015.tar.gz /backup

Now, The Above command will archive the whole “backup” folder we specified and place it inside of the root directory (if you’re running it outside of the folder specified) – so it now it is located below:

CODE: /root/backup-4-2-2015.tar.gz

Now, that we have created the backup it is time to RSYNC to our cloud storage device:

You Will need your My.Hivelocity.Net Login for this Step.

1) Login to Your My.Hivelocity.Net Portal and Navigate to: Services & Hardware > Cloud Storage
This will locate your username and password to login to your cloud storage.

2) Now that we have our Login Details We can go ahead and start the transfer:

CODE: rsync -avciz /root/backup-4-2-2015.tar.gz gfreeman_11032_a34a@cloudstorage3.hivelocity.net:/home/gfreeman_11032_a34a/backup

NOTE: This is the PUSH Command to push it from your Local Server to the Cloud

3) Once the command is ran you will receive this result:

NOTE: The Password is the password found in your my.hivelocity.net portal

4) And so now that it has completed pushing the information over to the cloud you may refresh your my.hivelocity.net portal page and you will see your new folder:

You have now completed Backing Up to The Cloud Via RSYNC.

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How to backup your Windows Server using Duplicati and Cloud Storage.

First login to https://my.hivelocity.net go to Services & Hardware, next click the Cloud Storage button at the top. Once you are in the Cloud Storage page you will see Login Details.

You will need your Login Details to setup Duplicati. Keep them handy for step #8.

1. Download and install Duplicati (https://www.duplicati.com/)

2. Select Setup a new backup

3. Choose a name for your backups

4. Select what you would like to have backed up to the cloud.

5. Choose a password be sure it is a strong password and you keep it somewhere safe. Without it you will NOT be able to recover your backups.

6. Confirm the password by typing it again.

7. Choose SSH Based on the Select a place to store your backups.

8. Type in the setting as they are below, you can use cloudstorage1.hivelocity.net or cloudstorage2.hivelocity.net for the Server. Please use the cloud storage login information found under the Cloud Storage tab in MyVelocity.

9. Click Test Connection to ensure the settings are correct. And then click Next.

10. You may set these to your personal preference.

11. Click run backup now and then click Finish!

12. Tada! Your backups are now running and being securely transmitted and stored on the cloud!

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cPanel simplifies the backup process with its built-in backup configuration feature. This tool lets administrators schedule automated backups, set retention periods, and select specific files, databases, or entire accounts for backup. As a result, it offers flexible backup management, tailored to the unique needs of each server. Moreover, administrators can easily choose storage locations, whether locally or via remote destinations such as FTP, Amazon S3, or Google Drive.

A reliable backup strategy is vital for disaster recovery and business continuity. With the right setup, you can quickly restore services after data loss, minimizing downtime and preventing data compromise. This WHM/cPanel Backup guide will go over the best backup practices, 3-2-1 backup rule, the ideal backup layout in your server, and backup configuration options within WHM/cPanel.

Best Backup Practices

When managing backups in WHM and in general, following best practices ensures data protection and smooth recovery in case of emergencies. By following these best practices, you ensure that your WHM backups and overall backup strategy provide strong protection against data loss and enable quick recovery in case of failure.

1. Schedule Regular Backups: Regular backups are essential to safeguard your data. In WHM, configure automated daily, weekly, or monthly backups to keep your server data up to date. This reduces the risk of losing critical information due to unexpected events. Make sure the frequency aligns with your business needs to avoid large gaps between backups.
2. Store Backups in Multiple Locations: Relying solely on local backups can be risky. Use WHM’s options to send backups to remote destinations like FTP, Amazon S3, or Google Drive. Storing backups both locally and remotely ensures that if one storage option fails, you still have a secure copy elsewhere
3. Use Incremental Backups: WHM offers an incremental backup option, which only saves changes made since the last backup. This method saves storage space and speeds up the backup process. Incremental backups are ideal for large servers where full backups may take too long or consume too much space.
4. Implement Retention Policies: Set up retention policies to keep a specific number of backup copies. This practice ensures that older backups are automatically deleted when they’re no longer needed, freeing up storage space and reducing costs. Be mindful of keeping enough backups to cover potential data loss scenarios.
5. Monitor Backup Processes: Keep a close eye on your backup processes through WHM’s backup logs and notifications. Monitoring helps you identify issues such as failed backups or insufficient storage space. Addressing these issues promptly ensures your backups remain reliable.

3-2-1 Backup Rule

The 3-2-1 backup rule is a widely recommended strategy for ensuring data protection and recovery. Following the 3-2-1 rule enhances data security and ensures that you can quickly recover your information in the event of data loss.

1. Three Copies of Your Data: Keep at least three total copies of your data. This includes the original data and two backups. Having multiple copies reduces the risk of data loss from hardware failures or corruption.
2. Two Different Media Types: Store the backups on at least two different types of storage media. For example, you might use an external hard drive and a cloud storage service. This diversification helps protect against failures specific to one medium, such as a hard drive crash.
3. One Offsite Backup: Keep at least one backup offsite to protect against local disasters such as fires, floods, or theft. This could be a cloud backup or a physical backup stored at a different location. Offsite backups ensure your data remains safe even in catastrophic scenarios.

Designing the Ideal Server Backup Layout

When designing the ideal server backup layout, it’s essential to consider how to organize backups across different partitions and types of drives. Proper partitioning and selecting the right storage media for your backups can significantly improve performance, reliability, and recovery times.

Partitioning for Backup Layout

• Create a dedicated partition solely for storing backups. This ensures that backups do not interfere with the system’s primary operations or other partitions, preventing scenarios where filling up the root or home partitions could crash the system.
• It’s best practice to keep the operating system, application data, and backup data on separate partitions. For example:
  • / for the operating system.
  • /var or /home for application and user data.
  • /backup (or another designated partition) for backups

Choosing the Right Storage Media

The type of drive you use for storing backups is critical in determining how fast you can back up and restore data, as well as the long-term reliability of the storage.

• Hard Disk Drives (HDDs): Cost-effective and high-capacity, HDDs are suitable for local backups that don’t require rapid access. Use them for less frequent backups, such as weekly full backups, stored on a dedicated partition to avoid impacting system performance.
• Solid-State Drives (SSDs): SSDs offer faster read/write speeds, making them ideal for critical backups that need quick recovery, like daily or incremental backups. Create a separate SSD partition to enhance access speed and reliability for frequently used backup data.

NVMe drives, while fast, are not ideal for backup storage due to their high cost per gigabyte and lower write endurance, leading to faster wear from frequent backups. Their speed is often unnecessary for backup tasks, where traditional HDDs or SATA SSDs suffice. Additionally, NVMe drives generate more heat and offer fewer cost-effective redundancy options.

WHM/cPanel Backup Configuration

The WHM/cPanel Backup Configuration feature simplifies automated backups, allowing users to schedule, customize, and store data locally or remotely for secure, reliable recovery. WHM backups involve all accounts and are server-wide while cPanel backups are backups within specific accounts. We will review both and provide procedures accordingly below.

WHM Backups (All Accounts/Server-Wide)

Backup Status & Type

1. Access the feature by navigating to Home / Backup / Backup Configuration within WHM.
2. Proceed to check the box for “Enable Backups”.
3. Select a backup type. For starters it is good to go with the default “Compressed” option.
   1. Compressed: This option saves disk space by compressing the backup but takes longer to create. It’s ideal when storage space is limited and backup speed is not critical.
   2. Uncompressed: Backups take more space but are created faster. This option is useful when you need quicker backups and have enough storage space available
   3. Incremental: Only backs up changes since the last backup, saving both time and disk space. It’s the most efficient option for ongoing backups, especially in environments with frequent changes.

      

Available Disk Space Check & Timeout Values

1. Check the “Check the Available Disk Space” option and set it to 10% so that if the available disk space is less than the amount that you specified, the system will not run the backup.
2. Leave the values for “Maximum Destination Backup Timeout” and “Maximum Backup Restoration Timeout” untouched.
3. The default scheduling and retention section value is of course to have “Daily Backup” checked along with all the days you wish to backup but that can be modified as needed along with adding a weekly or monthly backups if dailies are not a good fit. 

   

Files Settings

1. “Back up User Accounts” should be checked with access logs and bandwidth Data” both checked. The option to “Back up Suspended Accounts” is also available but not checked by default.
2. Ensure to have “Back up System Files” checked to support server restoration.

   

Databases 

1. Select the “Databases” option works best for you, however, the default and most recommended is to select “Per Account Only”.
   1. Per Account Only: Use the “mysqldump” command to create backup files with the “.sql” file extension for each account.
   2. Entire Data Directory: Back up all files in the “/var/lib/mysql/” directory.
   3. Per Account and Entire Data Directory: Back up all files in the “/var/lib/mysql/” directory, and use the “mysqldump” command to create backup files with the “.sql” extension for each account.

      
      

      

Backup & Retention Directories

1. Configure the backup path under the “Configure the Backup Directory” section to match the directory/mounting point of your designated backup location. For example, if my partition is mounted to the /backup directory, then /backup is what will go into that field. 
2. Backup Staging Directory can be set to the same path as your regular backups, however, that can be changed if necessary based on your preference, partition layout, and storage conditions.
3. Ensure to check the “Retain Backups in the Default Backup Directory” so that once backups are made and the system transfers the backups to another destination it will maintain the backups in the default directory. If you disable this option, the system will delete the backups after they move to another destination.

4. By default, the “Mount Backup Drive as Needed” is unchecked but can be checked if you’re experiencing any issues with the mounting point not mounting properly. Note that this requires a separate drive or other mount point.

   

Additional Destinations

WHM Backups can be sent to another location off server if needed. This can be useful if you do not wish to store backups locally on the server. 

1. Proceed to the “Additional Destinations” tab within “Home / Backup / Backup Configuration” at WHM. 
2. There are multiple options for backing up the account externally as shown in the image below.

   

3. Information about the different types of Remote Backup Destinations and how to configure them can be found in the official cPanel documentation as that is a live document that should be examined upon configuration of that section. 

cPanel Backups (Specific cPanel Accounts)

A cPanel account backup creates a complete copy of your website files, databases, and emails, ensuring easy recovery and data protection in case of issues. This section is more specific to clients accessing their cPanel accounts as they would not normally have access to the WHM section unless they are the owner of the server/have access to the root user.

1. The cPanel backup section can be reached by entering your cPanel account and navigating to “Backup” under the “Files” section.

   

2. Within the section you can download a zipped copy of your entire site or a part of your site that you can save to your computer. When you backup your website, you have an extra copy of your information in case something happens to your host. The following can be made as well within the feature.
   1. A full backup which will create an archive of all of your website’s files and configuration. You can use this file to move your account to another server or to keep a local copy of your files.
   2. Account backups by date as per available backups on server.
3. Partial Backups are also available along with the ability to restore them. The available items are listed below for reference.
   1. Home Directory Backup.
   2. Database Backup.
   3. Email Forwarders.
   4. Email Filters.

      

Further Assistance

For any further assistance involving partitions and backup configuration in WHM, do not hesitate to reach out to the Hivelocity Support team via a chat, support ticket, or phone at 888-869-4678.

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cp -a /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.bak

Above is for Centos users

For Ubuntu users ,please refer the following :-

sudo cp /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/apache2.conf.bak

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To create a backup of your individual cPanel account using SSH, just follow these steps:

1. First, log in to SSH as the Root user.
2. Next, enter the following command string on the command line interface:

   /scripts/pkgacct username
   
   

3. A backup of your account will be created and stored in the directory you are currently in.

Restoring a cPanel Backup via SSH

To restore a previously created backup of your cPanel account, just follow these steps:

1. First, if you haven’t already, log in to SSH as the Root user.
2. Navigate to the directory containing your backup file. *Note: In order to restore your data, you must be in the correct directory.
3. Next, to restore your cPanel backup, enter the following command into the command line:

   /scripts/restorepkg username

And there you have it!

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Now you know how to backup the system configuration files of your dedicated hosting server via WHM Backup Feature.

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2) On the main Screen Find the Backup and simply click on it.

3) Click the Configure Backup icon

4) It will show you various options with frequency that backup run and can be configured on this page.

Configure Backup Options:

Backup Status:

Backup Interval:

Backup Retention:

Days to Run Backup:

Remount/UnmountBackup Drive:

BailOut If Backup DriveMountFails:

Incremental Backup:

Backup Accounts:

Backup Configuration Files:

Backup SQL Databases:

Backup Access Logs:

Backup Type:

Remote FTP Host:

FTP Backup User:

FTP Backup Password:

FTP Backup Directory:

FTP Backup Passive Mode:

Backup Destination:

Select Specific Users:

5) Simply, “Enabled” the “Backup Status” and change the settings as per your requirements and hit the “Save” button.

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When restoring multiple backups, each backup needs to use the NORECOVERY option to keep the database in a loading state so additional backups can be restored. However, because the database is still in LOADING, you may encounter an unusable transaction log backup, leaving you unable to restore the file. To reset the status of the database, open Query Analyzer and use T-SQL to issue a BACKUP command:

RESTORE DATABASE Northwind WITH RECOVERY

This command resets the status of the “Northwind” database and allows users to access it. No additional restores can be issued after this command is executed.

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Expand Databases

Right-click on the database that you want to backup, select All Tasks -> Backup Database

If you would like to make a complete backup (recommended), make sure \”Database-complete\” is selected

Click the Add… button

In the File Name field, select the directory and type the name of the backup file you would like to create.

Click OK

Click OK again, and your database will be backed up.

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