How does Cyberpanel Remote Backup work?

January 11, 2023January 9, 2023 by Shoaib Khattak

Cyberpanel Remote Backup

Cyberpanel remote backup stores files on another server. This helps to retains the files from the loss or any other attack.
That provides users with a system for the backup, storage, and recovery of website files.

Procedure to Perform Remote Backup

Setup a Remote server
Enable API access
Setup Remote backup

Setup a Remote server

Organize a remote server which you want to use for the backup purpose.
Create a new server with cyberpanel (Remote server)

Enable API access

Go to Cyberpanel where you are managing your websites
Open Users –> API Access->

Setup a Remote backup.

Open a remote server
Go-To Backup–>Remote backup
Enter the Server IP Address and Password of the server where the domain exist
Fetch Record from that server .
Select the website for which you want to create backup. (You can also choose multiple sites)
Then click on Start Transfer.(I will take some time if the size is large)

Files will be transferred to the remote server.

CyberPanel Features List

June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 by Shoaib Khattak

This article will discuss the CyberPanel features list. All the features discussed in detail. This CyberPanel features list has all the features CyberPanel has.

CyberPanel Dasboard:

After login, you come to the base page, which is the CyberPanel dashboard. On the dashboard, you can see a sidebar on the left side, in this sidebar you can almost the feature of CyberPanel. In the center of the page you see those feature buttons you can access these feature from the sidebar lists or you can access through these buttons. On the right, you can see the Resources bar here you can see CPU usage, Ram usage, and Disk usage in percentage, how much you used the resources.

This is the all I discuss above are belong to the base/dashboard page of CyberPanel. now I’m discussing the sidebar feature list one by one.

CyberPanel Features List details

Sidebar in CyberPanel Dashboard:

here is the whole sidebar or CyberPanel Dashboard, the Sidebar is divided into three section that is Overview, Main, and Server.

Overview

In the Overview section, there is the general information of your server,
On the Top, you can see the IP address(255.255.255.255) that IP is your server IP address.
The next button is the Dashboard button, after clicking on this button go to the dashboard.
The next button is version management, if you want to know about your CyberPanel version click on this button.
The last button in this section is Connect if you want to connect your server to the CyberPanel Cloud then click on this button

Main

On the second section of the CyberPanel dashboard sidebar, you can see a lot of feature dropdown lists,

Users

This first feature is Users when you click on Users a dropdown list shown on your sidebar that has a lot more features.
View Profile, this feature shows your account details e.g Username, Account ACL, Email, etc.
Create New User, if you want to create a new user click on this button.
List Users, if you want to list all users of CyberPanel click on this button the all use show on your screen.
Modify Users, as the name shows, this button is for update/modify your user’s information.
Reseller Center, This feature issue the Reseller account.
Create New ACL, This feature is for Creating a new ACL (Access Control List)
Delete ACL, if you want to Delete ACL (Access Control List) this feature is for deleting.
Modify ACL, if you want to modify or update ACL (Access Control List) click on this.
API Access, Enable or disable via this button.

Websites

On the Section, the whole information about your websites that you are deployed on this server.
Create Website, You can create a new website by clicking on the button
List Website, You can list you all website that are deployed on your this server
List Child Domains, if you want to List all Child domain you can view all by clicking on this button
Modify Website, if you want to update/Modify your website click on this button
Suspend/Unsuspend,
Delete Website, if you want to delete your website click on this button.

Packages

Packages on CyberPanel help you assign resources to an individual website, you must create at least one package before you start creating websites.
Create Packages, You can create a package according to your requirement.
List Packages, List all Packages.
Delete Package, Delete the packages you won’t need anymore.
Modify Package, If you feel the need to modify the parameters for the existing package you can do so via modify package page.

Database

On the Database, you can create, delete, list, and access your database
Create Database, if you want to create a new database click on this button
Delete Database, On this button, it will delete the database
List Database, On this button it will list the database after selecting the website
PHPMyAdmin, if you want to access your PHPMyAdmin click on this button.

DNS

On this Button the whole information about DNS(Domain Name Server)
Create Nameserver, You can create a NameServer according to your requirement via this button.
Config Default Nameservers, Configure Nameserver via this Button
Create DNS Zone, Before you can use the “ADD/MODIFY DNS Records” page you have to create a DNS zone first, this is the first step to start using the DNS server.
Delete Zone, Once the DNS zone is created you can delete the zone using this button.
Add/Delete Records, Once the DNS zone is created you can add or delete records using this button.
Cloudflare, In version v2.0.0, CyberPanel has added the ability to synchronize DNS entries between Cloudflare and CyberPanel DNS on your own server

Email

In this section, you can create, list, delete email, etc,
Create Email, if you want to create a new email then click on this
List Email, This button is for List all Email created on the website.
Delete Email, if you want to delete Email click on this button
Email Forwarding,
Change Password, if you want to update or change the password of your email click on its button
DKIM Manager, access DKIM manager through this button
Access Webmail, access Webmail(Rainloop) through this button

FTP

Create FTP Account, click on this button to create a new FPT account
Delete FTP Account, if you want to delete an FPT account click on this button
List FTP Accounts, This button is for List all FTP account

Backup

Taking complete backup of a website account is simple.
Create Back up, If you want to create a backup click on this.
Restore Back up, Backup restore only works with backups generated through the backup generation tool in CyberPanel.
Add/Delete Destination, if you want to Add or Delete Back up Destination click on this
Schedule Back up, if you want to schedule your website’s backup then click and produce.
Setup Google Drive, This feature is for Google drive one-click backup
Remote Backups, this feature is for Remote backup

Incremental Back up

CyberPanel version v1.9.1 adds supports for incremental backups, Local, SFTP, S3 backup
Create/Restore Back up, you can create a local or remote incremental backup.
Add/Remove Destinations, From this button, you can directly go to backup destinations.
Schedule Backups, if you want to schedule your website’s backup then click and produce.
Restore from Remote this feature is for Incremental Remote backup

SSL

Manage SSL, If you want to Manage SSL click on this button and manage
Hostname SSL, If you want to issue Hostname SSL you can issue it via this button
MailServer SSL, this button is for Mailserver SSl

Server

The third and last section of CyberPanel sidebae is server.

Web Terminal:

CyberPanel v1.9.2 onwards has a web terminal (to access your server SSH). However, in some browsers, you might not be able to use Web Terminal with default self-signed SSL. In that case, just set up CyberPanel on SSL. Now access CyberPanel using that domain.

Cloudlinux

CloudLinux and CageFS is available with CyberPanel v.1.8.6, but before using any of its features, you need to convert your operating system to CloudLinux OS. Use the commands below to convert your server to CloudLinux OS.
Create Package,
List Packages,
Monitor Usage,

Containerization

Containerization feature (v1.8.0 and above required, currently only CentOS is supported) offers to limit website resources and have no link to our Docker Manager feature. With containerization you can limit various system resources for a website, groups are used on the back end to enforce these limits. You can limit:

CPU Usage.
Memory Usage.
Network Usage.
Disk Usage (IO and IOPS)

Docker Manager

CyberPanel gives you the ability to manage your Docker container and images the easy way. Some of the exciting features of CyberPanel Docker Manager:

Search and pull images from Docker Hub (Along with tags).
Prune the system.
Create Container from available/pulled images.
List and manage container that includes:
1. Start/Stop Containers.
2. View Logs.
3. Export the file.
4. View Processes inside the container.
5. Delete Containers.
6. Re-create containers.

Manage Images,
Manage Containers,
Create New Container,

Tuning
LiteSpeed Tuning,
PHP Tuning,

Server Status

This feature is for check your server status and maintains it.
Top Processes, from this feature you can check Top process.
LiteSpeed Status, from this feature you can LiteSpeed status
CyberPanel Main Log File, from this feature you can check CyberPanel Mail log files
Services Status, from this feature you can check your servers Status
Change Port, if you want to change your port then this feature is for that
Package Manager, from this feature you can access your package manager

PHP

Install Extensions, if you want to install extensions e.g. redis etc extension you can install via this option
Eidt PHP Configes if you want to change or configure your PHP version or anything else then you can change from this option

Logs

This is main featuer of CyberPanel. if you want see your server log you can watch from the option you can see:
Server Mail,
Access Log,
Error Logs,
Email Log,
FTP Logs,
ModSec Audit Logs,

Security

This feature is for your server security. there is a lot of more feature in this.
Firewall, you can stop, start, reload, and add/delete firewall through his option
Secure SSH, Securing SSH is one of the most important tasks of a system administrator. CyberPanel allows you to change SSH port, disable root login and save your SSH keys.
ModSecurity Conf, this feature is for ModSecurity configuration.
The ModSecurity Rules, if you want to add/remove update or anything else with ModSecurity Rule you can from this option
For the ModSecurity Rules Packs, you can check the ModSecurity Rule pack from this option.
CSF, You can configure CSF(ConfigServer Security & Firewall) from this button
CageFS, you can enable/disable CageFS from this button
Immunity 360, you can enable/disable Imunify 360 from this.
ImunifyAV, you can enable/disable ImunifyAV from this.

Mail Settings

This feature is related to your emails.
Mail Queue, If you want to see your mail Queue(pending mails) you can see.
Email Policy Server, this feature s for Email policy.
Email Limits, this feature is for email limits
SpamAssassin, you can Install SpamAssassin through this feature.
Email Marketing, this feature is for Email Marketing
MailScanner, If you want to install or remove MailScanner you can from this feature.

Manage Services

This feature is related to your server Service and application that you can install and check status.
Applications, you can install and uninstall applications from this feature.
Manage PowerDNS, PowerDNS is the service you can check this form this option
And Manage Postfix, you can check postfix service form this option
Manage FTP, you can check FTP form this option

Plugins

You can install new plugin and uninstall installed plugin from this feature.

This are the main CyberPanel features list.

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Backup / CyberPanel / Google Drive

How to set up Google Drive Backup on CyberPanel?

December 18, 2020October 20, 2020 by Shoaib Khattak

CyberPanel has a great feature to add Google Drive backups. They added this feature in their 2.0.2 version.

This G-Drive backup option makes the backup process easy and more reliable. The method to set up Google drive Backup is also so easy. there is nothing typical or complex.

You can follow this guide to add Google drive backup through CyberPanel.

How to Transfer the whole Website From one CyberPanel to Other CyberPanel using a backup method?

December 18, 2020September 28, 2020 by Shoaib Khattak

If you want to transfer your web site from one cyberpanel to any other cyberpanel without losing any data, you are on right place follow this article step by step.

If you are thinking to transfer your site from any other CyberPanel. Maybe you Changed your server. In this article, I will tell you how you can transfer your site from one Cyberpanel to another Cyberpanel. I will use the backup method to transfer the whole website from one CyberPanel to the second Cyberpanel.

Create a Backup:

To tranfer your website from CyberPanel to CyberPanel this methode is one of the simple and easy method. Follow along with me to setup:

2. Now in the left menu bar Go to the Backup->Create Backup section. You can also navigate to this link. https://<your-ip>:8090/backup/backupSite

Click on create back up button here.

3. Now cyberPanle asks you to select a site and the destination where the backup will store. The site for which you want to create a backup. Select your website, and leave the path as empty. And press Create back up button to start the backup creation process.

4. Now you can see the process of backup creation is running and in process.

wait until it will give you the massage Done. After creation you can see the massage of completed and can see a backup with its id on screen.

Done for backup process go to next step.

Set Permissions or Move Public_html:

If you are going to download files from cyber panel to a local computer then skip this step. Now in this step, you need to login to your SSH terminal. Using any software like putty or Bitvise. For this article, I am going to use Bitvise.

Login to Bitvise SSH you must have credentials

After providing all details press the Login button. Now open STFP to check and confirm the backup.

2. Now go to this path in sfpt

/home/yoursite/backup

Here you can use two method one is to change permissions and download this file directly from this path on the remote server and other is move it into the public_html and then download. Second one is recommended.

Change Permission:

Click on the file and the go to Properties->Permissions :

Change the permission to 777 as shown in picture. And press OK

Move to Public_html:

Type this command:

cp /home/yourdomain.com/backup/backupfilename home/yourdomain.com/public_html

Go and check the file.

Download to local Computer or Download on a remote server:

Now its time to download the file to the local pc or on another server in order to restore the backup. Make sure that the cyber panel is installed on this server.

Download to local computer and then upload:

This way is time taking way but if you dont have credentials fo SSH then go for this.

Go to the Websites->List website

Press Manage button on the right side of website

Go to the backup folder and Click the file and then click download you can see the file while downloading

Download Remotely using command:

wget yourdomain.com/backupfilename

If backup files are in back folder then type:

wget yourdomain.com/backup/backupfilename

Move to backup folder:

Now in order to restore Backup, you have to create a directory backup at home. use these commands to create a backup directory

cd /home

mkdir backup

Restore Backup:

Now its ite to restore backup for this log in to the new cyberpane.

Go to the Backup->Restore backup:

Select the backup file that you placed inside the backup folder

2. Click start backup I will take some time to restore wait until backup is completed.

Check through Host file:

At last step confirm that the backup is restored properly foe this open host file from your local computer.

Write Notepad in search bar of window.

Open Notepad as administrator

Now open the file host place in

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Write your new ip and then press TAB then write your site

Go to your browser and visit your site is working or not.