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cPanel allows you to easily configure your backup with just a few button clicks. The backup configuration is very basic, easy to use, and effective for your server’s environment.

First of all, scroll down on the left frame until you reach the Backup section. Next, click on Configure Backups as seen in the left snap shot.

We will go over each and every option (shown in the table below), and determine what is the best backup strategy solution for your environment.

Back up status
We have three modes for this option: Enabled, Disabled, and Restore Only.

• Enabled mode will allow cPanel to create and restore backups. You should use this mode when you need cPanel to create new backups.
• Disabled mode will disallow cPanel to create and restore backups. You should use this mode whenever you don’t want cPanel from creating new backups, or you don’t want to use the restore option. One scenario where you want to disable backups is if your backup drive is having hardware issues, and you’re in the process of replacing it. You can disable backups until you’ve replaced the hard drive with a new one.
• Restore Only mode will allow you to only restore backups. You can use this option if you don’t want cPanel from creating and overwriting existing backups, and you wish to only use the restore function.

Back up interval
This sets on how frequent your backups will take place. Either Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. As mentioned by cPanel, keep in mind that selecting Daily Backup will give you monthly and weekly as well, selecting weekly backup will give you monthly as well.

Choosing how frequent your backups will take place is very crucial to your server operation. If your server holds large amounts of data (e.g. 40-60G of user information), picking the Daily backup routine will not be the best choice in my opinion. Your server will be compressing, and then copying 40-60G on a regular daily basis. That’s quite a lot of server processing each and every day. I’d say this is an unwanted server load. In this case, weekly backups would be a better choice than a daily backup. You will have to think carefully as what your server will function as, and then pick what is best for your server proper functionality.

There are more about the configuring back up in the part 2.