Backup Objects: Hierarchy and Volume
Panel provides opportunities for backing up and restoring nearly all hosting data, which includes main Panel objects: administrator account, settings for Panel-managed services, reseller accounts, customer accounts, subscriptions, websites, databases and mail accounts. These backup objects are organized into a hierarchy where parent object is always an owner of its children. The hierarchy comprises of four levels: server, resellers, customers and subscriptions. The levels are such that a higher level includes objects on the lower levels but a lower level is completely separated from the higher objects.
You can create either a full or a partial backup. A full backup is the highest-level backup and includes all data related to a Panel installation. A partial backup includes only the desired Panel objects of any of the levels. For information on available options when creating a partial backup, refer to the section Specifying Data for Backing Up.
Restoring a backup, in turn, can also be either full or partial. Full restoration recovers all data contained in a backup, and partial recovers part of this data. For information on available options when restoring data from backups, refer to the Defining Objects for Restoration section.
Each backup object includes the following:
- Configuration defines the properties of the backup object and its descendants.
- Content contains binary data related only to the backup object (website content and content of mailboxes).
This table shows what data (configuration and content) are related to each backup object.
| Backup Object Type | Configuration | Content |
|---|---|---|
|
server |
This backup level includes the following:
|
License keys for Panel, virtual host templates, website content, error documents, log files, and content of mailboxes. |
|
reseller |
This backup level includes the following:
|
Website content, error documents, log files, content of mailboxes. |
|
customer |
This backup level includes the following:
|
Website content, error documents, log files, content of mailboxes. |
|
subscription |
This backup level includes the following:
|
Website content, error documents, log files, content of mailboxes. |