Compatibility of Virtualmin backup format?

2 posts / 0 new
Topic locked
Last post
#1 Mon, 11/01/2010 - 16:04
kenlyle

Compatibility of Virtualmin backup format?

Is there any name or international standard, or Linux standard, etc. to which the Virtualmin backup format adheres?

IOW, cPanel backups are a defacto web standard, and I have imported many of them.

But when I give a departing client (first one coming up) a Virtualmin backup, what tools can process it? Including restoring databases, etc., ideally.

Best, K

Mon, 11/01/2010 - 16:19
andreychek

Howdy,

Backups from other control panels can only be imported into Virtualmin because Jamie sat down, figured out how those control panels generated the backups, and he devised some code to import those into Virtualmin.

In order to import a Virtualmin backup into another control panel, the developers for that control panel would have had to write code to import the Virtualmin backup. I'm not aware of any who have done that :-)

That said, it would be pretty straight forward to take the website and database data from the Virtualmin backup archive, and put it onto another host. The entire contents of the users home directory are accessible in the backup archive, and you'll see a sql file in the .backups directory of the archive containing all the MySQL data.

The only thing they'd have to do then is re-create their email accounts/aliases.

-Eric

Topic locked