Usually, the backups on cPanel Shared and Reseller Hosting are performed by eUKhost and are basically stored in a recovery point. In order to restore the data (backup) it is essential to access the recovery point and download the backed up data in a form of an archive.

Here in this tutorial, we are going to see how to restore the backups directly to your cPanel account home directory, on the hosting server where you website is hosted.

In order to access the R1Soft Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Web Interface, you will need to log in to your cPanel account.

Step 1: Log in to your cPanel account.

Step 2: Search for the Feature named “R1Soft Restore Backups” and click on it to access the R1Soft CDP log in page.

Step 3: Enter your cPanel account login details to access the CDP web interface.

Step 4: Once you enter the credentials the following page will appear showing you the 7 Recovery Points with cPanel Data.

There are three ways you can restore the data:

1. Restore all Data
2. Restore the Home Directory
3. Restore Specific Files and Folders

Restoring all the Data:

Step 1: Click on the “Send to Agent” (img – Send to Agent Icon) icon located in the right column of the window infront of the recovery point you choose to restore.

Restoring the Home Directory:

Step 1: Simply click on the Browse  icon infront of the recovery point you choose to restore.

Step 2: Select the checkbox shown infront of the home directory as shown in the image below:

Step 3: Now to restore the selected directory, click on the “Send Selected to Agent” button as shown in the image below:

Restoring Specific Files and Folders:

Step 1: Click on the “Browse”  icon to browse the specific files and folders you wish to restore.

Step 2: Double click the home directory to browse the specific files and folders stored in the recovery point.

Step 3: Once you double click the home directory, a new window will appear as shown in the image below:

Step 4: Select the checkboxes infront of the files and folders that you want to restore and hit the “Send Selected to Agent” button as shown in the image below:

Step 5: A new “Archive Control Panel User Data” window will appear upon clicking on the Send Selected to Agent button.

The first page is the Introduction page. Click on the “Next” button at the bottom.

Step 6: This is the Archive Type page, where you will have to select the type of archive in which you want to download the data.

You can either choose to “Dowload files as a tar archive” or you can “Download files as a zip archive”. Upon the selection of the “File Type” click on the Next button to proceed to “Archive Filename” page.

Step 7: Here you can enter the desired file name for the “Archive” you wish to download.

Step 8: Click on the “Next” button to proceed to the “Summary” page.

Step 9: Click on the “Send to Agent” button to restore the specific files and folders as shown in the image above.

The R1Soft CDP Agent will automatically restore the archive to the home directory on the server where the cPanel control panel is installed.

Step 10: Once the archive is restored to the home directory, you can extract the archive and move the files to the desired destination.

By following the above steps you can restore your cPanel Web Hosting and Web Reseller Hosting daily backups successfully.

That’s it! Hope it helps!

In the CDP 3.0 version, the Backup Scheduler is known as “Policy”. The policy feature allows you to schedule policy in two different ways. You can either schedule recurring policies or create one-time policy. In order to schedule a policy (backup) in CDP 3.0 follow the instruction given below:

There are three important things (Agent, Volume and Disk Safe) which must be already created before you proceed with the steps below. If you don’t know how to create them, check out the following CDP 3.0 tutorials:

How to Create an Agent in CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition ?
How to Create a Volume in CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition ?
How to Create a Disk Safe in CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition ?

Let’s proceed. We assume that you have already logged in to the CDP 3.0 server.

Step 1: Click on the “Policy” option listed in the Dashboard menu. (see image below)

Step 2: Next, click on the “Create New Policy” located in the top left pane. (see image below)

Step 3: When you click on “Create New Policy” a new popup window will appear. (see image below)

Step 4: Here you will need to define the following settings:

Identification:

Enabled – Select the checkbox to enable the policy
Name – Enter a name to keep a track
Description – Enter a description to keep a track

Disk Safe:

Agent – Select an agent added for the client’s server
Disk Safe – Select a disk safe created for client’s server

Frequency:

Frequency Type – Specify the schedule and recurrence for the policy (On Demand, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly).

Step 5: Now, click on the “Create” button in the bottom of the window in order to create the policy.

Step 6: You will see a notification window appearing on your screen showing a message “Successfully created policy”.

Step 7: Hit the “OK” button to add the policy in the policies list.

That’s it!

Offsite backup hosting plans are ideal and applicable only on Windows VPS Hosting, Linux/Windows Cloud Hosting and Dedicated Server Hosting solutions.

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to create disk safes in CDP 3.0 enterprise edition.

We assume that you have successfully connected to and logged in to the R1Soft’s CDP 3.0 Server.

Step 1: Go to Dashboard menu and click on “Disk Safes”. (see image below)

Step 2: In the top left pane under the “Disk Safes” menu, click on “Create New Disk Safe”.

Step 3: Once you click on “Create New Disk Safe” a new popup window will open. (see image below)

Step 4: Here you will need to enter the following settings:

Identification:

Name – Enter a name for Disk Safe

Agent:

Agent – Select an agent from the drop-down menu

Disk Safe Location:

Volume – Select (the) correct Volume created from the drop-down menu. See How to Create Volumes in CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition ?

Compression:

Compression Type – Select a compression Type. For example: “QuickLZ”.

Devices:

Automatically add new devices
Protect Storage Configuration

Select both of the above options.

Step 5: Next, hit the “Create” button to proceed.

Step 6: When you hit the create button, a notification window will appear showing message “Successfully created disk safe!” Click on “OK” to finish.

That’s it!

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to create volumes in R1Soft’s CDP3 Enterprise Edition.

We assume that you have connected to the CDP 3.0 server and logged in.

Step 1: In the Dashboard menu, click on “Volumes”. (see image below)

Step 2: Now, click on “Create New Volume” in the Volumes menu located at top left pane. (see image below)

Step 3: Once you click on “Create New Volume” a popup window will open: (see image below)

Step 4: Enter the following settings:

Identification options:

Name – Enter a name for the volume to identity it while assigning a volume to a disk safe.
Description – Enter a description for the volume.
Volume Path – Enter a new or existing folder path to place the assigned disk safes in this folder.

Quotas:

Quota Type – Select “On Disk Size”
Soft Quota - Enter a minus 2 figure of your backup plan size. For example: if a client purchased 20GB backup space, then enter Soft Quota 18GB.
Hard Quota – Backup place size

Groups:

Here you can assign a group(s) to the volume. Select a group from the drop-down menu and hit the “Add” button.

Users:

Here you can assign user(s) to the volume. Select a user from the drop-down menu and hit the “Add” button.

Step 5: Once you are done with the Volume settings, click on the  “Create” button at the bottom of the window to create a new volume to the system.

Step 6: If the folder doesn’t exist, it will come up with a notification window. You will need to confirm your request by clicking on the “OK” button. (see image below)

Step 7: When you click on the “OK” button, after a few moments you will be informed by a notification window, if the Volume is created successfully. (see image below)

Step 8: Hit the “OK” button on the notification window and the Volume will appear in the “Volumes” list.

That’s it!

Following are the steps you need to follow to create an agent in your R1Soft’s CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition.

Step 1: Open your web browser and connect to the CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition and log in using your login credentials.

Step 2: Click on the “Agents” button shown in the Main Menu located under the ‘Dashboard’ in the left pane of the page.

Step 3: Now, click on “Create New Agent” shown in the Agents menu located in the top left pane.

Step 4: Once you click on “Create New Agent” a new popup window will open allowing you to set the following things:

Description – Enter a description for the agent.
Host Name – Enter a host name or IP address of the agent.
Port Number – Define a port in order to connect
to the agent.

Step 5: For this particular agent, you can set the Group’s special permissions. However, the groups’ permissions can only be changed when:

• Adding an Agent
• Editing an Agent
• Adding a Group
• Editing a Group

Step 6: Select a group of your choice and define the special permissions for it. When you select a group you will see several boxes in the “Groups”:

• Full Control – gives you the ability to control everything mentioned below.
• Editing agent’s settings
• Browsing agent’s recovery points
• Manipulating disk safes for agent
• Editing agent’s users
• Manipulating policies for agent
• Viewing agent’s task in the task history console
• Restoring files from agent’s recovery points

If you want to remove a group from the agent properties window, simply click on the “X” icon shown in the red color.

Step 7: Same way as “Groups”, you can set special permissions for the “Users”.

Step 8: Once you are done with all the settings, click on the “Create” button at bottom of the window.

Step 9: After a moment you will see a notification window showing “Successfully created agent” message. Click on the “OK” button.

Once the Agent is created it will appear in the Agents list and the Operating System (OS) of your dedicated hosting server will be detected automatically.

That’s it!

The R1Soft’s CDP Solution allows you backup your files in two different ways on an offsite server. In this tutorial we are going to see how to configure backup schedules in two different ways.

1. Configuring a Full Backup every month on a specific day, retaining 4 recovery points.
2. Configuring an Incremental Backups daily, retaining 7 recovery points.

The first backup we are going to schedule is:

How to Configure a Full Backup on each Saturday Retaining 4 Recovery Points ?

Before you configure a backup schedule, you will need to go through Creating Backups Using R1Soft.

How to Configure an Incremental Backup Daily Retaining 7 Recovery Points ?

In this tutorial we are going to see, how to create a backup using the R1Soft’s CDP Backup Agent on an offsite server.

Step 1: Open your web browser and enter the login URL to connect to the CDP Server.

Once you enter the login credentials the “Hosts” page will load automatically as shown in the image below.

Step 2: Click the “Hosts” icon on top of the Main page as shown in the above image.

Step 3: Now, you need to select the proper “Host” Under the Host Name column or you can use the filter option to find the appropriate host.

Once you click the appropriate Host Name, it will open up with a new window. See image below:

Step 4: Hit the “Backup and Restore” button as shown in the above image and the following backup wizard will open.

Step 5: On the above page, click on “Schedule Backup” button as shown in the above image.

Once you click the “Schedule Backup” button, it will open the “Schedule a new Backup task” page as shown in the image below.

Step 6: Here on this page you will need to define the following settings:

Save Task : Tick the check box to save backup task.
Enabled : Tick the check box to enable backup task.
Description : You can enter a desired name for your task but make sure the name is different from the existing scheduled backup tasks.
Recurrence : In the drop-down menu you will need to select the schedule and frequency for the backup task. In the drop-down menu you will find options like (Now, Minutely, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly). If you wish to run an immediate backup, leave the option default as “Now” and it will start to backup your data immediately.

Backup Task Options

Only keep the last x recovery points : Tick the check box in order to enable the feature and enter the desired recovery points.
Defragment data files when finished : Tick the check box if you want to defragment the data files upon completion of the backup task.
Verify recovery point when finished : Tick the check box to verify Recovery Point when backup task is finished.
Devices to Backup : If you want to backup all the devices, then you can select “All active devices” or if you wish to backup only the selected devices, then you can choose “Only selected devices” option and tick the devices you want to backup.

Step 7: Once you are done with the settings, hit the “OK” button to save the backup task as shown in the image below.

That’s it! If you have scheduled a backup task to run immediately, the R1Soft’s CDP Agent will start to take backup of your files immediately on an offsite dedicated hosting server.

Q. What is Offsite Backup Hosting ?

Ans: The Offsite Backup Hosting is a remote backup solution based on the R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which ensures continuous protection of all your website data stored on the server. The R1Soft’s CDP Solution is an advanced backup software application that allows disk-based data protection and disaster recovery for servers and workstations which are running the operating systems like Windows and Linux. Our CDP server protects disk volume data through replication & synchronization over the network storing point-in-time snap-shots into disk-based storage. The backups can take seconds to minutes to complete.

Q. Under which hosting packages can I perform the Offsite Backups ?

Ans: The offsite backups can be performed under the Hyper-V based Virtual Private Server Hosting, Dedicated Server Hosting and Cloud Server plans only. It is not possible on the Virtuozzo based VPS, because it uses the nodes Kernel and doesn’t have its own. The offsite backup is only possible on the Hyper-V and VMware based VM’s as they have their own Kernel. Backup plans from eUKhost can be ordered as an add-on with the above mentioned web hosting plans.

Q. Which systems are compatible to perform Offsite Backups ?

Ans: eUKhost’s offsite backup plans are compatible with both Windows and Linux servers based on Hyper-V and VMware. These Offsite backups are not compatible with Virtuozzo based servers as mentioned above.

Q. How does backing up data affect the operation of other services on the server ?

Ans: While the disk sector synchronization is executed on an online server, it doesn’t interrupt the input and output requests or the operation of other services even if the server is busy.

Q. Does Offsite Backups put a heavy load on the OS ?

Ans: No, the offsite backup process is carried out very smoothly and doesn’t put any heavy load on the operating systems.

Q. What is included into Offsite Backup solution offered by eUKhost ?

Ans: eUKhost’s Offsite Backup Hosting solution offers unlimited bandwidth, disk based data protection, disaster recovery, differential backups, incremental backups, scalability to upgrade backup plans, end-to-end strong encryption, point-in-time snapshots and ability to restore specific files/folders.

Q. Where the backed up data will be stored ?

Ans: The backups performed using the R1Soft’s CDP backup software will be stored on the offsite servers.

Q. Every time do I have to perform Offsite Backup tasks manually ?

Ans: No, the offsite backup tasks cannot be performed manually. You can schedule the backup tasks Daily, Weekly or Monthly according to your requirements. You can also set up a recovery point as per your needs, so that the backups are recovered accordingly.

Q. Is it possible to compress or encrypt the backup data ?

Ans: Yes, It is possible to compress or encrypt the backup data. When scheduling the backup tasks you can decide and enable whether to compress or encrypt the data.

Q. Are the Backup Plans scalable ?

Ans: Yes, all of our backup plans are fully scalable, so that you can experience the flexibility of upgrading your remote backup plan very easily.

Q. Is R1Soft Backup Software difficult to setup and use ?

Ans: The R1Soft’s CDP Backup Software would be installed and taken care by our technical experts.

Q. Can Offsite Backup solution be used for home backups ?

Ans: No, the R1Soft’s backup software is used only for backing up the data on the servers and cannot be used for home backups.

Q. Do you offer technical support for Offsite Backup solution ?

Ans: Yes, we do offer technical support for the Offsite Backup Hosting solution.

Q. Do you offer trial on Offsite Backup plans ?

Ans: No, we do not offer any trial on the Offsite Backup Hosting plans.