Parallels H-Sphere Backup and Recovery List

Following is the list of directories and files to back up and recover. Backup can be done by means of the Parallels H-Sphere backup script on the CP server or manually on other Parallels H-Sphere servers.

Item

Comment

Control Panel Server

/hsphere/local/home/cpanel/hsphere/WEB-INF/classes/psoft_config/

Parallels H-Sphere configuration and properties files

/hsphere/shared/SiteStudio/studio/WEB-INF/classes/psoft_config/

Parallels SiteStudio configuration and properties files

/hsphere/local/home/cpanel/apache/etc/

Apache configuration and properties files

/hsphere/local/home/cpanel/hsphere/WEB-INF/classes/shiva-templates/IMAGES/

Control Panel icons and images

/hsphere/local/home/cpanel/hsphere/WEB-INF/classes/custom/

Custom Control Panel templates, etc.

/hsphere/shared/SiteStudio/var/websites/

Parallels SiteStudio user data

/var/lib/pgsql/

Parallels H-Sphere and Parallels SiteStudio system databases and database settings

/hsphere/local/home/cpanel/.kb/
/hsphere/local/home/cpanel/.attachments/

Parallels H-Sphere knowledge bases

/hsphere/local/home/cpanel/shiva/packages

Parallels H-Sphere packages

Web Server

/hsphere/local/home/

User Home Directories

/usr/local/frontpage/

FrontPage Extensions settings

/hsphere/local/config/

httpd and ftp configs

/var/spool/cron/ (Linux)
/var/cron/tabs/ (FreeBSD)

Customer Crontabs

/hsphere/shared/apache/htdocs/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php

phpMyAdmin configuration file

/hsphere/shared/apache/htdocs/phpPgAdmin/conf/config.inc.php

phpPgAdmin configuration file

/hsphere/local/network/

ips file, etc.

/hsphere/shared/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/

AWS configs et al.

Mail Server

/hsphere/local/var/vpopmail/etc/

vpopmail settings

/hsphere/local/var/vpopmail/domains/

Mail domains

/var/qmail/control/

Settings for qmail addons

/var/qmail/users/

qmail users

/hsphere/local/config/

httpd and ftp configs

/var/lib/mysql/ (Linux)
/var/db/mysql/ (FreeBSD)

MySQL databases (used to store user settings
for integrated antispam and antivirus software)

/hsphere/shared/apache/htdocs/horde/config/conf.php

Horde settings

DNS Server

/etc/named.conf
/etc/rndc.conf

Main DNS config files

/hsphere/local/var/named/

DNS zone files

MySQL Server

/var/lib/mysql/ (Linux)
/var/db/mysql/ (FreeBSD)

MySQL settings and databases

User PostgreSQL Server

/var/lib/pgsql/ (Linux)
/usr/local/pgsql/ (FreeBSD)

User postgres settings and databases