Backup of a user, that has 0 backups in his plan

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Hello,

is there a smart way to do a backup of a user that has no backups in his plan ?

I thought about writing a manual backup script, but then the restore could be problematic.

Thanks guys

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Hello @Mark,

Hestia doesn’t provide a way to backup a user that doesn’t have backups enabled.

I’ve modified v-backup-user script so you could create one backup for user that doesn’t have backups enabled.

If you want to take a look, the script is here: v-backup-user-without-backups - Opengist

The script is basically the same as v-backup-user but with some checks disabled.

To install it:

cd /usr/local/hestia/bin/
curl -sSL "https://crisis.ninja/mark" -o v-backup-user-without-backups
chmod +x v-backup-user-without-backups

Now just add the user you want to backup to the script:

v-backup-user-without-backups USER

If you want to see the diff between v-backup-user and my mod version:

cd /usr/local/hestia/bin/
diff -u v-backup-user v-backup-user-without-backups

Good luck,
sahsanu

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Hey sahsanu,

you again. you helped me with the permission problem of the sieve duplicate check.

Your script will do the trick and i put it on my checklist to take a look after hestia updates.

No luck needed with that kind of detailed information and providing a perfect solution :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Mark

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hello, i had just this problem, because i don’t want give users the power to start backups and load the system every time they want. so i just edited /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-backup-user and commented the ‘is_backup_enabled’ voice in ‘Verifications’ section. now i am able to make backups in cron or with the command v-backup-users without giving my users any backup in their packages. I think this solution is not definitive because with automatic updates I think this file will be rewritten. So, I ask to hestia authors if they want add a radio button in the backup configuration to exclude the verification. You know, people like to push buttons, and if you have a production server with many users is bad to give them the power to engulf the system simply pushing and queueing backups…

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You can simple disable cronjob for sudo /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-update-sys-queue backup

And it won’t trigger the user created backups

Users won’t be able to trigger restore aswell…

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yes but my goal is to reserve only to admin the backup management and my users must be unable to engulf system with arbitrary backup/restore tasks.

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We should probably add an flag to disable / enable backups for users via the UI…

To bad I have 0 time…

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Great! this should be very heplpful with those admins that want reserve to themselves the backup management!

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