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cPanel remote FTP backup isn't secure
Posted by radium1200, 10-14-2011, 05:01 PM I use cPanel's remote FTP backup, which runs on a schedule and has been great, but it's not SFTP and the backups aren't password protected. After reading this I'm starting to think I need to go a different route. What is the most secure, automated method of backing up client data to a remote, offsite server? The servers are at SoftLayer and they offer Evault & Lockbox, but I've never used either.
Posted by MichelleH, 10-14-2011, 05:05 PM Personally I have used Softlayers Lockbox for about 4 years now. It is great! Never had an issue with it.
Posted by radium1200, 10-14-2011, 05:10 PM With Lockbox, do you transfer files over the private network via FTP/SFTP or do you mount the dir?
Posted by ultrabizweb, 10-14-2011, 06:04 PM I use rsnapshot it seems to work fairly well. Does require some configuration though. Nice rotating backups with links to save disk space. I setup backup to a directory on the cPanel server but could be a network mount or hard drive mount. Then I rsnapshot the directory every day to the backup server. There is also a company that makes a plugin that uses rsync and you don't have to run the backup first. I think the link is http://portal.syslint.com/downloads.php Hope this helps
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