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cork	# December 10, 2011, 2:12 pm
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 1 Status:	Is there a way to automate site and database backups using the backup tool? I would like to have my sites backed up automatically every so many days.
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Brijesh	# December 11, 2011, 6:24 am \| Post: 1
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, This feature is not available at the moment. We will add this feature soon. ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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haylau	# May 14, 2013, 7:29 am \| Post: 2
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 8 Status:	Any progress / news on the implementation of autobackup?
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haylau	# May 16, 2013, 4:53 pm \| Post: 3
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 8 Status:	Quote From : haylau May 14, 2013, 7:29 am Any progress / news on the implementation of autobackup? IS this likely to be implemented?
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Brijesh	# May 20, 2013, 11:25 am \| Post: 4
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, We are sorry for the delay. We will be adding it in Softaculous 4.2.6 ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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haylau	# May 20, 2013, 3:16 pm \| Post: 5
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 8 Status:	Quote From : Brijesh May 20, 2013, 11:25 am Hi, We are sorry for the delay. We will be adding it in Softaculous 4.2.6 Excellent News!
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Brijesh	# July 13, 2013, 2:22 pm \| Post: 6
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, Automated backups has been added to Softaculous. Please execute the CRON command to get the latest package : http://www.softaculous.com/docs/Immediate_update Here is the complete list of changes in Softaculous 4.2.6 : http://www.softaculous.com/board/index.php?tid=4284 ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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haylau	# July 15, 2013, 7:42 pm \| Post: 7
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 8 Status:	It is great that this has now been implemented. However it looks like it is only available for new installations. Is there a way to add autobackup to existing installations?
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Brijesh	# July 16, 2013, 6:03 am \| Post: 8
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, Adding Automated backups for the existing installations will be added to the Edit Installation page in Softaculous 4.2.7 which will be out within a week. ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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Brijesh	# July 18, 2013, 11:35 am \| Post: 9
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, Softaculous 4.2.7 is released with the option to enable automated backups for existing installations. Here is the guide for the same : http://www.softaculous.com/docs/Automated_Backups#For_Existing_Installations Please execute the CRON command to upgrade to the latest version : http://softaculous.com/docs/Immediate_update ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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baillie11	# October 12, 2013, 8:38 am \| Post: 10
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 3 Status:	Hi I am on Version 4.3.2 and Automated Backups appears to have been removed? Is this true?
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Brijesh	# October 12, 2013, 8:50 am \| Post: 11
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, No sir this feature has not been removed. It seems your server admin has disabled Automated Backups on your server. ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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Brijesh	# October 26, 2013, 10:59 am \| Post: 12
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Yes you can use. Here is the guide for backing up : http://www.softaculous.com/docs/How_to_Backup_an_Installation and if you would like to schedule automated backups use this : http://www.softaculous.com/docs/Automated_Backups ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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rymarchant	# December 27, 2013, 10:42 pm \| Post: 13
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 1 Status:	Hi There, For some reason with my install, the automatic backups don't seem to be working. All I get are emails that say the following: X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.27 Content-type: text/html Please provide some input. The path that is in the cron job page in cpanel is the one that softaculous created. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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Brijesh	# December 28, 2013, 7:29 am \| Post: 14
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, For some reason it seems the utility is not receiving any input. Can you please PM me the CRON command in your cPanel. ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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haylau	# March 1, 2014, 4:46 pm \| Post: 15
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 8 Status:	Loving the autoback up We do notice an issue. We registered a domain and hosting plan and installed prestashop using softaculous in to the root folder. All good Now, we have registered new domains, and each new domains goes in to a subfolder in the root. We install software and backup and all is good But the original domain backup is now very large - why? because it backups up ALL the other domains at the same time So be clearer, Root : Graphskill.com sub folders: graphskill.co.uk, u-bolts-r-us, shackles-r-us etc When softaculous backs up graphskill.co.uk in it's own subfolder, just .co.uk gets backed up BUT When softaculous backs up graphskill.com, it backs com up but also backss up all the other domains Any thoughts? I dont think there is any way around this, but it can mean that the backup of the main domain will get too large and stall
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Brijesh	# March 2, 2014, 8:06 am \| Post: 16
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, Sir at the moment when you take a backup of the main domain it will backup all the sub directories. We are working on the solution to backup only the files related to installation on the root domain and will add it soon. Sorry for the inconvenience. ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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haylau	# April 11, 2014, 3:40 pm \| Post: 17
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 8 Status:	Quote From : Brijesh March 2, 2014, 8:06 am Hi, Sir at the moment when you take a backup of the main domain it will backup all the sub directories. We are working on the solution to backup only the files related to installation on the root domain and will add it soon. Sorry for the inconvenience. That is great news, i don't suppose it is in release 4.4.5 on 7th April? I don't suppose you can give an approximate time scale?
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Brijesh	# April 12, 2014, 9:45 am \| Post: 18
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, We are beta testing the fix and will launch it with the next version of Softaculous. ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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haylau	# April 12, 2014, 9:47 am \| Post: 19
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 8 Status:	That is great news. Will it work on current installations or just new installations?
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Brijesh	# April 12, 2014, 10:14 am \| Post: 20
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	It will work on current installations as well. ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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haylau	# April 12, 2014, 10:16 am \| Post: 21
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 8 Status:
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artifice	# November 7, 2015, 9:19 pm \| Post: 22
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 3 Status:	How do we restrict the speed of backups? I have a simple phpList installation, still just in testing stage, and automatic backups hit 3072 IOPS every time it runs. That's an unreasonable resource usage for a simple backup script... This is the crontab that was automatically created: 19 23 * * * /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous/cli.php --backup --auto=1 --insid=55_49180
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Brijesh	# November 9, 2015, 1:40 pm \| Post: 23
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	artifice, We have the backup script designed in such a way that it should not consume more than 2-3 mb ram in given second and hence should not consume much IO. I would be happy to debug this, however we will need root access to your server to debug this. You can open a support ticket with us with the root details and we will check this for you : https://www.softaculous.com/support/ ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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artifice	# November 10, 2015, 3:28 am \| Post: 24
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 3 Status:	Quote From : Brijesh November 9, 2015, 1:40 pm artifice, We have the backup script designed in such a way that it should not consume more than 2-3 mb ram in given second and hence should not consume much IO. I would be happy to debug this, however we will need root access to your server to debug this. You can open a support ticket with us with the root details and we will check this for you : https://www.softaculous.com/support/ I don't know what to say other than it pushes 3072 IOPS every time it runs. This particular test installation is on a shared hosting plan so I don't have root access to the machine, but I can follow up with the host themselves and see if they would be willing to work on it with you. I'm not sure how memory usage relates to IOPS though.. IOPS is more of a speed throttling issue rather than a memory usage issue.
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Brijesh	# November 10, 2015, 1:48 pm \| Post: 25
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, The backup process should not increase the IOPS as well. Can you please check if there is any other script on your server scheduled to run at the same time which could be causing the IOPS to increase ? If you can ask your host to open a support ticket with us we can investigate this further. ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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artifice	# November 11, 2015, 1:20 pm \| Post: 26
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 3 Status:	It's the only cron job running at that hour. I'll contact my host and see if they're willing to do that, thanks.
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campur	# January 12, 2016, 4:55 pm \| Post: 27
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 4 Status:	I set up an automatic backup when I created my website with Wordpress last autumn. Now I get an error message every day: You have reached the maximum number of (<b>5</b>) backups allowed. Please delete unwanted backups to be able to take a new backup. Myt backup command is generated and looks correct: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous/cli.php --backup --auto=1 --insid=26_58130 I've looked in the manual for adding automatic backup, and also there it looks correct.
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Brijesh	# January 13, 2016, 7:57 am \| Post: 28
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, It looks like you have reached the maximum backups allowed for your account. Can you please login to your cPanel -> Softaculous -> Backups and check if you have already used maximum backups allowed and if possible can you delete unwanted backups and see if you still face the issue. ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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campur	# January 13, 2016, 11:29 am \| Post: 29
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 4 Status:	I've of course reached the max number of 5, that's why i get the error message. I didn't find anything about backup at Softaculous, but at Softaculous - Wordpress. It's configured with Backup rotation 5, which didn't work. I found 6 backups, which might be the reason for the problem, so I've removed two of them. Hopefully that helps.
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Brijesh	# January 13, 2016, 11:44 am \| Post: 30
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, It could be possible that a manual backup was created i.e. from Softaculous GUI which caused the auto backup rotation to not delete this backup because the auto backup utility only deletes the backup created by auto backups. Deleting unwanted backups should resolve your issue. ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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campur	# January 17, 2016, 3:36 pm \| Post: 31
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 4 Status:	I had to install WordPress twice, that might be the reason there was two backups for the first day. Now I've got several mails about backups going OK, so the problem seems to be solved. There seem to be an improvement possibility; to delete the oldest backup which it can delete, not necessarily the oldest backup. Then it'll be possible to make a special backup, like before a bigger change, and have it until the new version is approved. It might though be nice to recieve a mail, telling that the oldest backup couldn't be deleted.
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Brijesh	# January 21, 2016, 1:14 pm \| Post: 32
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, Thank you for the suggestion. We will add the error message that the backup could not be deleted soon. ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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Automating Backups - Rotation Setting Not Working

xkelly	# October 21, 2016, 4:46 pm \| Post: 33
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 1 Status:	Hi. Have auto backup scheduled to daily with backup rotation set to 4. Backup set size is 114MB. Just got a notification from my provider that I'm about to hit their 25GB limit. I checked my settings, saw rotation was still set to 4, but I had six months of daily backups listed. Any idea why backups over 4 are not being deleted? I would post the Softaclous version, but I can't seem to find it in cPanel or in the app itself. Thanks.
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Brijesh	# October 24, 2016, 9:37 am \| Post: 34
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Hi, Sorry for the delay. We tested the backup rotation on our test servers and it seems work fine. Can you please open a support ticket with us so that we can check this for you ? ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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Sigytal	# March 6, 2019, 12:37 am \| Post: 35
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 1 Status:	how to create job for auto delete 1week before backups
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Brijesh	# March 11, 2019, 10:21 am \| Post: 36
Group: Softaculous Team Post Group: Super Member Posts: 5652 Status:	Quote From : Sigytal March 6, 2019, 12:37 am how to create job for auto delete 1week before backups Hi, Are you looking for Weekly auto backups ? If yes you can choose Weekly backups and choose the appropriate auto backup rotation i.e. if you choose rotation as 1 only 1 backup will be available at any point in time. If you choose the rotation as 2 only 2 backups will be available at any point. ----------------------- Webuzo - Multi User Hosting Control Panel AMPPS - Best WordPress/PHP/MySQL development tool
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