This is a guest post from Tim Hollis, VP of Operations at JetApps! JetApps has returned this year to exhibit at the cPanel Conference, October 1st – 3rd in Houston, Texas. If you haven’t already, take a look at the agenda<\/a>, book your room<\/a>\u00a0(discounted rates apply until September 9th!), and get registered<\/a>!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
As a software company, nothing makes us happier here at JetApps than hearing stories of how JetBackup has significantly improved the backup and restore process for hosting providers. \u00a0Please enjoy the following true story of a JetBackup user who found a way to reduce his backup window by 50%!<\/span><\/p>\n
We were on a mission to find a way to run daily backups of our entire server farm of 150 servers on to 1 single backup destination server. \u00a0Our ultimate goal was to complete this daunting task in a backup window of 7 hours or less between the time of 11pm to 6am to avoid disturbing our clients during business hours. \u00a0Before continuing this true story of a \u201cMission Impossible\u201d task that would eventually become reality, let\u2019s discuss the technical specs of our configuration: <\/span><\/p>\n
It was time to harness the power of JetBackup 3.2! The need to use \u201cfind\u201d and \u201ccp\u201d commands was completely removed as it now creates everything \u201con the fly\u201d using hardlinks. \u00a0In addition, this newer version of JetBackup improved the general speed using open sockets saving roughly half a second per account. That might not sound like much but when you are backing up 15,000 cPanel accounts it shaved 2 hours off our backup time! <\/span><\/p>\n
We hope you enjoyed this true story from a hosting provider using JetBackup. The founder of JetBackup, Eli Alum<\/a>, will be presenting in Houston, Texas October 2nd at the cPanel conference<\/a> so don\u2019t miss it! JetApps is also a sponsor of the cPanel conference for the 2nd year in a row. We met a lot of great cPanel partners at our booth last year and came away with some of our largest JetApps Partners. Please come by and visit us at our booth. We would love to hear how you currently configure your backups and provide you with some tips on how to make them even faster and more efficient!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"