Backup Server has been designed to make it easy monitor one or more website's backup status as well as additional parameters including: Apache/PHP settings, Backup Client module configuration, installed module status, MySQL server statistics, and node and user creation histories.

For the latest changes please read the "What’s new" page.

Quick start guide to monitoring a site:

  1. Install Backup Server module (this can be the same website or another)
  2. Configure a website to be monitored
    1. Make sure Backup Client Service module is enabled.
    2. Goto the "Client <-> Server" tab (admin/build/backupclient/configuration/client).
    3. Allow external servers access to Backup Client.
    4. Allow external server to retrieve backup information.
    5. For the user account that will be used to access the site: grant the user permission "access backup client services".
  3. Add website to monitor

    Goto the "Add" tab (admin/build/backupserver/add) and enter the information about the website you want to monitor. Note: if this website is properly configured it can monitor itself.

  4. Update the information about the site

    From the Backup Server overview page select the "Update" link in the Administration table column.

Design goals and background:

FivePaths was spending a lot of time keeping all their client websites up to date. We found that a lot of this work was repetitive and could be automated. Our goal was to make it easy to get a quick snapshot of a website's configuration and status. From these efforts this module emerged.