cPanel/WHM

cPanel/WHM use bind (or named) for the Local DNS server. This is a record for where to send email, what sub-domains exist and which IP Address to go to to see the content of your web site.

The DNS information about each domain name is stored in the

/var/named

folder.

Note: If you edit a file directly, make sure you also synchronise the changes to clustered DNS Servers from within the WHM,

If you have a WHM/cPanel based server, then you probably already have a daily backup running that keeps daily, weekly and monthly backups in another folder. But this does not help if the server disappears - you also need an offsite backup and Amazons S3 is perfect for this.

The good news is that there already exists a 'hook' that is run after an cPanel backup that we can use to do this.

Note: The functionality already exists to FTP backups to an external FTP server.

First you need to set up backups in WHM