Server backup and restore
Take full backups of cPanel and Plesk accounts with the ctapanel agent and send them to ctabox, S3-compatible storage, another of your servers or your own device. Schedules run daily, weekly or monthly and keep the last 1 to 90 backups. You restore to the same server or another with the same panel, confirmed with a WhatsApp code. A late backup raises an alert and lowers the health score.
- Topic
- F · Tools and operations
- Order
- 03 / 08
- Points
- 05
- Panel support
- 2 / 4 panels
- 01A plan per serverSchedules run daily, weekly or monthly; each one keeps the last 1 to 90 backups.
- 02Pause or editPause, resume, edit or delete a schedule. Paused schedules are flagged on the screen.
- 03Late doesn’t hideA late backup costs 1.5 points of health score and raises an alert.
- 04Also per accountEach hosting account has its own backups tab with that account’s backups.
- 05Restore from hereRestore a package to the same server or another with the same panel, confirmed with a WhatsApp code.
What it does.
Backups rarely fail loudly. They just stop, and nobody notices until a restore is needed. On cPanel and Plesk servers with the agent, ctapanel packages each account with the panel’s own tool and sends it to ctabox, S3-compatible storage, another of your servers or your device. Schedules run daily, weekly or monthly and keep the last 1 to 90 backups. You restore a whole package to the same server or another with the same panel. Each hosting account also has its own backups tab.
Schedules run daily, weekly or monthly, at the time and time zone you choose.
Each schedule keeps the last 1 to 90 backups (7 by default) and can be paused, resumed, edited or deleted.
A late backup costs 1.5 points of health score, so it doesn’t go unnoticed.
Restores go to the same server or another with the same panel, confirmed with a WhatsApp code.
Optional password encryption; lose the password and nobody can open the backup, not even ctapanel.
Which panels support it?
Capability Backup plans
- yesManaged from the panel
- yesManaged from the panel
- noNot possible on that panel
- No panelnoNot possible on that panel
Servers without a control panel have no account, reseller or mailbox management, because those come from the panel itself. Firewall, DNS, services and the terminal work over SSH. See the full table
Tools and operations
Tools that make the daily work easier and leave a trail.
- F.01Details Browser-based server terminalChecking on a server shouldn’t mean opening PuTTY and hunting for a key file. Pick the server in the panel, type the command and read the output on the same screen. Close to twenty commands are ready for disk, memory, processes, services, ports and the mail queue. Commands you can’t undo, like rm -rf /, are stopped before they run.
- F.02Details Rule-based AI server assistantAsk in your own words, for example which server is about to run out of disk. The assistant answers questions about disk, load, mail, services, SSL, backups and transfers from your fleet’s current data. It is rule-based and makes no outside network request. The command it suggests goes to the terminal in one click, and running it is still your call.
- F.03This page Server backup and restoreTake full backups of cPanel and Plesk accounts with the ctapanel agent and send them to ctabox, S3-compatible storage, another of your servers or your own device. Schedules run daily, weekly or monthly and keep the last 1 to 90 backups. You restore to the same server or another with the same panel, confirmed with a WhatsApp code. A late backup raises an alert and lowers the health score.
- F.04Details Audit and activity logEvery change made in the panel is recorded with who made it and when. Filter the activity log by job, alert, account, server or security to find the change you’re after, such as the moment a firewall was switched off. Work the panel does on its own is logged under its own name, so nothing is put down to “the system”.
- F.05Details Team roles and permissionsNot everyone on your team needs the whole panel. There are four user roles: owner, sysadmin, support and read-only. Someone on support can create an account but cannot switch the firewall off. The table also shows who has two-factor authentication turned on. Inviting people and editing permissions are still being built.
- F.06Details API key expiry trackingSee every key the panel uses to reach your servers, when it was last used and how many days it has left. A key that is running out comes to you as an alert, so you can plan the renewal before metrics stop. Creating and revoking keys from this screen is still being built.
- F.07Details Ctrl+K command palettePress Ctrl+K (⌘K on a Mac) and type the name of the screen you want. All thirty pages and the actions you use often sit in the same search box, so you move around the panel from the keyboard instead of digging through the menu. You don’t need to remember a screen’s exact name.
- F.08Details Turkish, English and dark modeThe panel comes in Turkish and English, and switching language changes more than the menus: number and date formats follow it too. The theme can be light, dark or set to follow your system, so dark mode comes on when your operating system switches. Your choice is saved.
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