Disk space requirements for account restore?
Posted: December 29th, 2021, 7:58 am
Hi folks.
I have a cPanel server that has around 25 accounts, one of which contains nearly 200 GB of Emails (while the 24 other accounts all together only use around 50 GB in total!). My backups are sent over SSH to my home NAS (I use a small Linux VM at home that mounts my NAS over NFS, allowing Jetbackup 5 to work over SSH and store the data to the NAS itself).
I'm using incremental backups, which means I no longer need to pay my VPS provider for a 250 GB disk dedicated only for the temporary files required by the backup (that's what led me to switch from cPanel's native backup to Jetbackup 5 BTW). Incremental backups take around 150 MB during the backup process, emails being directly rsync'ed with the remote destination.
I'm wondering what disk space is used by Jetbackup 5 when doing an account restore from an SSH incremental destination? Would it have similar low temporary space requirements, or would it require more space to download the data used by the restore process (in which case I could temporarily add a 250 GB disk to my VPS for the JB workspace, do the restore, then delete the temporary disk - I'd only be billed for the time the disk existed).
Thanks!
I have a cPanel server that has around 25 accounts, one of which contains nearly 200 GB of Emails (while the 24 other accounts all together only use around 50 GB in total!). My backups are sent over SSH to my home NAS (I use a small Linux VM at home that mounts my NAS over NFS, allowing Jetbackup 5 to work over SSH and store the data to the NAS itself).
I'm using incremental backups, which means I no longer need to pay my VPS provider for a 250 GB disk dedicated only for the temporary files required by the backup (that's what led me to switch from cPanel's native backup to Jetbackup 5 BTW). Incremental backups take around 150 MB during the backup process, emails being directly rsync'ed with the remote destination.
I'm wondering what disk space is used by Jetbackup 5 when doing an account restore from an SSH incremental destination? Would it have similar low temporary space requirements, or would it require more space to download the data used by the restore process (in which case I could temporarily add a 250 GB disk to my VPS for the JB workspace, do the restore, then delete the temporary disk - I'd only be billed for the time the disk existed).
Thanks!