You don't say which control panel you are using.
DirectAdmin is pretty good for doing backups itself, are the servers yours, or a hosts.
R1Soft is good, if you want to bare metal restore, but if you are renting, rather than co-locating your servers, then your host should be able to reinstall the OS with a KickStart server or similar.
As handsonhosting said earlier, if you rsync /var you should be getting the mysql databases as they sit in /var/lib/mysql by default.
I have some scripts for backing up your vhosts and mysql.
These are for "plesk-alike" boxes but you can change /var/ww/vhosts to /home
Backup Home Directories
#!/bin/bash
$DEST_IP=”10.10.10.10″
SOURCE_DIR=”/var/www/vhosts”
DEST_DIR=”/backups”
ARCHIVE_DIR=”archives”
clear
echo “Starting Archiving…”
echo
for i in $(find ${SOURCE_DIR} -type d -name httpdocs)
do
echo “Starting $(date)”
echo “Archiving ${i}”
echo “To ${DEST_DIR}/${ARCHIVE_DIR}/$(date +%y%m%d)$(echo ${i} | sed ‘s/\//./g’).tgz”
tar zcf ${DEST_DIR}/${ARCHIVE_DIR}/$(date +%y%m%d)$(echo ${i}| sed ‘s/\//./g’).tgz ${i}
echo “Completed $(date)”
echo
done
BACKUP MYSQL
#!/bin/bash
MYSQL_DIR=”/var/lib/mysql”
MYSQL_DUMPS=”/archives”
DB_ACCOUNT=”root”
DB_PASSWORD=”password”
echo “Dumping databases”
for i in $(find ${MYSQL_DIR} -type d -exec basename {} \
do
case ${i} in
test | mysql | lost+found )
echo “Skipping database: ${i}”
;;
* )
echo “Dumping database: ${i} @ $(date)”
mysqldump -u${DB_ACCOUNT} -p${DB_PASSWORD} –quick ${i} > ${MYSQL_DUMPS}/$(date +%y%m%d).${i}.sql
echo “Compressing dump of ${i} @ $(date)”
gzip ${MYSQL_DUMPS}/$(date +%y%m%d).${i}.sql
;;
esac
done
echo “Completed @ $(date)”
This might help if you are not using a control panel!
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