About types of backup

The Backup feature in WEBppliance enables the following types of backups.

- Appliance backup

- Reseller backup

- Site backup

# Appliance backup

An Appliance backup backs up the data of the following entities on WEBppliance:

- Appliance configuration

- Reseller accounts

- Sites hosted on the WEBppliance

## Appliance configuration

You can back up your WEBppliance configuration settings at any time using the Backup/Restore Manager.

The backup saves data from the following directories to the FTP server you specify.

- /var/named/*.*
  These directories contain the DNS records.

- /usr/lib/ensim-python/site-packages/vh3/custom/*.*
  These directories contain global domain customizations.

- /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt

- /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key

- /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.csr/server.csr
  These directories contain data about Web server certificates, keys, and certificate requests.

- /etc/mail/access

- /etc/mail/access.db

These directories contain data about spam filter settings.

## Reseller accounts

Reseller account backup includes:

- Reseller account information

Information backed up includes:

- Reseller logo

- Reseller style sheets

- IP range configuration file

- Sites hosted on the appliance

Information backed up includes:

- Site configuration information

- All files within the site owned either by the site (Site Administrator) or the root (Appliance Administrator)

- MySQL databases of the site

- Site-specific files located under /var/named/*.*

- All files from /home/virtual/site<n>/info/custom/*.* (these are the customizations local to the site; these will only be restored when the site is restored via the Appliance Administrator or the Reseller Administrator)

- Site users

Information backed up includes:

- User configuration information

- Files in the site owned by the user

## Sites hosted on the WEBppliance

The site backup includes:

- All the sites created by the Reseller/Appliance Administrator

- All the site users

# Reseller backup

A Reseller backup backs up the following:

- All Reseller accounts

- Sites hosted on the WEBppliance

# Site backup

A Site backup backs up the sites hosted on the WEBppliance.